Artists' Gardens
Garden designer Cox, author of Private Gardens of Paris (Crown, 1989), here teams with fashion and portrait photographer Lennard for a sumptuous tour of 22 private and public artists' haunts. The artists and gardens include the well known and the obscure, from Augustus Saint-Gaudens's "Aspet" in Cornish, New Hampshire, and Ian Hamilton Finlay's "Little Sparta" in Scotland to Isamu Noguchi's Japanese garden on the island of Shikoku. The garden styles are equally diverse: traditional, avant-garde, fantastical, surreal, old and new, rural and urban. Cox relates the artists' work and career to their garden styles and planting. The 132 color photographs are stunning, often full-page spreads. Recommended for larger collections.- Richard Shotwell, MRA Laboratories Inc., North Adams, Mass.Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.