Tradition and innovation in French garden art
Subtitle: chapters of a new history
By: edited by John Dixon Hunt and Michel Conan ; with the assistance of Claire Goldstein
Contributors: Hunt, John Dixon; Conan, Michel; Goldstein, Claire
Series: Penn studies in landscape architecture
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780812236347
Subjects: Gardens, French -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses; Gardens, French -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses; Gardens -- France -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses; Gardens -- France -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses; Landscape architecture -- Netherlands -- History -- 17th century -- Congresses; Landscape architecture -- Netherlands -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: Papers from a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: The cultivation of a king, or the flower gardens of Louis XIV / Elizabeth Hyde; title: Engineering and French formal gardens in the reign of Louis XIV / Chandra Mukerji; title: Jules Hardouin Mansart and André Le Nostre at Dampierre / F. Hamilton Hazlehurst; title: Making breathing room : public gardens and city planning in eighteenth-century France / Richard Cleary; title: The tree : rural tradition and landscape innovation in the eighteenth century / Yves Luginbühl; title: Francesco Bettini and the pedagogy of garden design in late eighteenth-century France / David L. Hays; title: The garden of the perfectibilists : Méréville and the Désert de Retz / Michel Baridon; title: Jean-Marie Morel and the invention of landscape architecture / Joseph Disponzio; title: The coming of age of the bourgeois garden / Michel Conan; title: Freedom from the garden : Gabriel Guévrékian and a new territory of experience / George Dodds; title: Reinventing the Parisian park / John Dixon Hunt; title: Stories for tomorrow / Bernard Lassus