Arts & Crafts Gardens [Hardcover]

Wendy Hitchmough (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 15, 1998

Three photographers present behind-the-scene images of a young Bob Dylan at the beginning of his career, many of which appear in this book for the first time.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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This is the kind of book in which you can simply luxuriate if you like but which will also cause you to begin taking notes or to scratch emendations into your garden plan. -- The New York Times Book Review, Verlyn Klinkenborg

About the Author

Barry Feinstein's work has appeared in LIFE, Look, Esquire, Time, and Newsweek. He was the exclusive photographer on Dylan's 1966 European tour and on the 1974 Dylan/The Band tour.
Daniel Kramer's pictures have been collected by the Eastman House, the National Portrait Gallery, the Whitney, and the International Center of Photography. He was nominated by the Music Journalism Awards for his photographs of Bob Dylan.
Jim Marshall is the author of Not Fade Away: The Rock & Roll Photography of Jim Marshall and most recently, Jim Marshall: Proof. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Smithsonian and he has more than five hundred album and CD covers to his credit.
Arlo Guthrie, the son of renowned folk artist Woody Guthrie, is a folk musician who was nominated for a Grammy in 1967 for Best Folk Performance and in 1997 for Best Musical Album for Children.
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 208 pages
• Publisher: Rizzoli (March 15, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 084782084X
• ISBN-13: 978-0847820849
• Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 9.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,472,955 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars A disappointment, July 5, 2005

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This review is from: Arts and Crafts Gardens (Hardcover)

Wendy Hitchmough's "Arts and Crafts Gardens" is not a bad book, but it is an annoying book. It meets none of the objectives most people would have in buying it: It isn't big enough or have enough pictures to be a big book of beautiful examples. It doesn't have enough about the principles of arts and crafts gardens, or how the principles of the arts and crafts movement were applied to gardens to guide someone who might want to build one. It isn't organized historically so you can see how arts and crafts gardens were invented out of Victorian gardens that went before. It doesn't present a sociological analysis of who built arts and crafts gardens, what they thought they were doing and what we can make of it in retrospect.

In fact, the text is a mess. It seems to be semi-random observations about gardens, the arts and crafts movement, the nineteenth century, Gertrude Jekyll and related topics. The only coherent chapter is "A Sense of Place," which isn't about gardens at all! It's mostly about the architecture, furnishings and living arrangements of Hvittrask, an arts-and-crafts masterpiece compound in Finland.

I'm still looking for a book that can really tell me about arts and crafts gardens.