From art to landscape
Subtitle: unleashing creativity in garden design
By: W. Gary Smith
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Timber Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Portland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780881929737
Other titles: Unleashing the creative process in garden design
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Artists' tools in garden design; title: Cultivating the artist's eye. The creative self : begin with who you are; title: Building a visual vocabulary : shapes, forms, and patterns; title: Sketching, painting, drawing : ways of seeing; title: Expanded repertoire : lessons from artists; title: The garden as fine art : H.F. du Pont's Winterthur; title: Designing the artful garden. Abstracting from nature : Peirce's woods at Longwood Gardens; title: Interpreting sense of place : the tropical mosaic garden; title: Collaboration goes wild : the New England Wild Flower Society's garden in the woods; title: Fantasy and imagination : enchanted woods; title: The artist's eye in the garden.