Alternating discursive accounts with fictional vignettes that recreate time and place, this book skillfully integrates the history of French gardens with the modern history of ideas.Denise Le Dantec is a poet and Professor of Philosophy at the Centre National d'Enseignement à „istance, Paris. Jean-Pierre Le Dantec is a Professor in the School of Architecture at the University of Paris La-Villette.
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"The authors skillfully blend history and philosophy, sciences and novelistic invention into an intoxicating mixture. The result is completely successful: One can smell the rich fields of medieval Europe, view the preoccupied flight of bees long dead, and muse over the creation of that most artificial of natural worlds, the garden." Leighton W. Klein, The Bloomsbury Review
" Reading the French Garden focuses on ideas that are essential to garden history: how gardens were perceived rather than simply laid out, how gardens of the past may be viewed differently by contemporaries and by later historians, the cultural determination of garden style -- its social and intellectual uses." -- John Dixon Hunt
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Original Language: French --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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- Literature and Nation in the Sixteenth Century: Inventing Renaissance France by Timothy Hampton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Contested Parterre: Public Theater and French Political Culture, 1680-1791 by Jeffrey S. Ravel on page 68, and Back Matter
- The Left in Search of a Center by Michael Crozier on page 81, and page 84
- Our Beautiful, Dry and Distant Texts: Art History as Writing by James Elkins on page 260, and page 261
- Greater Perfections: The Practice of Garden Theory (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) by John Dixon Hunt in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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