Foreign trends in American gardens
Subtitle: a history of exchange, adaptation, and reception
By: edited by Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780813939131; 9780813939292
Subjects: Gardens; Foreign influences; History
Description: "Foreign Trends in American Gardens addresses the influence of foreign, designed landscapes on the development of their American counterparts. Including essays from an array of significant scholars in landscape studies, this collection examines topics ranging from the importation of Western and Eastern styles of design and theoretical literature to the adaptation of specific plant types. As the variety of topics and influences discussed demonstrates, the essence of American gardens defies simple definition. Examining the translation, imitation, adaptation, and naturalization of stylistic trends and horticultural specimens into American gardens, the book also dwells on the juxtaposition of the foreign and the native. The volume’s contributors consider the experiences both of immigrants, who contributed through their writing, planting, and design efforts to enhance the character of regional gardens, and of Americans, who traveled abroad and brought back with them a passion for naturalizing exotics for scientific as well as aesthetic reasons. The complexity of American gardens—their combination of the historic and the modern, and of foreign cultures and local values—is also their most distinctive characteristic."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. British influences. The American translation of the picturesque / Emily T. Cooperman and John Dixon Hunt ; Studying peculiarities / Andrew Jackson Downing's multifaceted adaptation of British principles to American practices and ways of life / Caren Yglesias; title: pt. 2. French exchanges. "These beautiful pleasure-grounds of death" : nineteenth-century America's adaptation of the Parisian rural cemetery / Jill Sinclair ; Of monarchical climates and republican soil : French plants and American gardens in the Revolutionary Era / Elizabeth Hyde; title: pt. 3. The reception of the Italian garden in America. The American colonial garden and the garden of the country place era : the role of ancient and early modern Italy / Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto ; Camera Bella : the photograph and the perception of the Italian garden in America / Rebecca Warren Davidson; title: pt. 4. The American identity as perceived by the Americans and the foreigners. Considering fitness and fairness : the search for American identity in garden and forest / Eric McDonald ; Growing home : Thomas Affleck, immigrant and advisor in the American South / James Schissel ; A European "northerner" in California : Richard Neutra as a landscape architect / Johannes Stoffler; title: pt. 5. The pull of the Orient. Political landscapes : Japanese gardens at San Francisco's World's Fairs of 1915 and 1939 / Kendall H. Brown ; The garden network : George Rogers Hall's horticultural activism / Sara A. Butler.