Inventing the Garden
By: Matteo Vercelloni, Virgilio Vercelloni, with Paola Gallo ; translated by David Stanton
Contributors: Vercelloni, Virgilio; Gallo, Paola; J. Paul Getty Museum
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Los Angeles
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 275
ISBN-13: 9781606060476
Subjects: Design; Gardens; History
Work titles: Invenzione del giardino occidentale
Description: The authors trace the evolution of the Western garden from the first plots cultivated for pleasure in the Middle East to today's diverse green spaces that challenge traditional ideas about what constitutes a garden. They examine the changing attitude toward nature--as something to be dominated or embraced, ordered or allowed to range freely, exploited or conserved. --from publisher description.
Notes: Translation of: L'invenzione del giardino occidentale.

"Italian edition (c) 2009 by Jaca Book S.p.A., Milan"

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Beyond the enclosure; title: The invention of the garden; title: Hortus conclusus; title: The humanistic dream and the Italian Renaissance garden; title: Material culture, scientific curiosities, and exoticism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; title: The persistence of the Italian model and Baroque restlessness; title: The French formal garden; title: An aesthetic revelation : the landscape garden; title: Structures for the romantic garden; title: Aesthetics, history, and botany in the nineteenth-century garden; title: From the rediscovery of flowers to the wild garden; title: A garden for everyone; title: The American garden; title: The twentieth century; title: Into the new century