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The Formal Garden: Traditions of Art and Nature
Mark Laird
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ASIN: 0500015422 |
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Art of the Formal Garden
Arend Jan Van Der Horst
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ASIN: 0304347426 |
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Today's "formal garden" features an exciting combination of elegant and romantic elements. These 12 richly illustrated arrangements, created by a leading designer, feature "imaginative symmetry"--the free planting of plants within a symmetrical framework. The result: a dynamic blend of rustic and urban, open and hidden styles. Adapt the author's plans and planting schemes, choosing from many styles of hedges, herbaceous borders, terraces, water features, kitchen gardens, pergolas, to create a classic garden all your own.
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- A Paradigm
- The Quotation of Versailles
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Mirrors of Infinity: The French Formal Garden and 17th-Century Metaphysics
Allen S. Weiss
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ASIN: 1568980507 |
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From the Japanese Zen Garden to André Le Notre's Versailles, the?history of landscape reveals that every garden embodies a philosophy.?Focusing on the metaphysics, aesthetics, and theology of the seventeenth?century, Allen Weiss's analysis offers new insight into the major gardens?of this period: Vaux-le-Vicomte, Chantilly, and Versailles.?
?From the Meditations of Descartes and Pascal's?Pensés, to the intrigues of court politics, Weiss reveals?how the structure of these gardens reflects -- sometimes literally -- the?power of Louis XIV, the relationship between God, King, sun, and infinity,?and the new science of optics. Weiss's sophisticated yet highly readable?text combines contemporary theory with a careful historical reading. He?gives us a richer understanding of gardens than allowed in more?traditional formal and stylistic analyses.
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A Paradigm.......2006-10-07
What would you rather do, talk about making love, or make love? If your answer is the former, then (A) please don't bother reading on, and (B) good luck! Talking about making love makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. It's absurd! The same holds true of art. Oh yes, there are those movie critics, art critics, music and CD critics, you know, all those people who think that their opinion matters. (What's worse, of course, is to write a critique of a critique as I'm doing here [lol].) Think about it in practical terms: out of a population of six billion people, why would you rely on the opinion of ONE human being? That makes no sense whatsoever. If you wanted some sort of opinion that was worth a hoot, wouldn't you ask more than one person? Or even more importantly, why wouldn't you trust your OWN judgment instead of somebody else's? Makes no sense to me whatsoever! Unlike other disciplines -- politics, religion, sports, etc. -- there is no "middle man" in the arts: there is no politician, no priest, no referee. ONLY in the arts do you have a direct relationship between the two parties, that being the art object -- the particular work of art -- and the "receiver" who "interacts" with it -- the listener, the viewer, the reader, etc. What a unique, simple yet powerful relationship and process! So, IF you are going to write about art, you better do it right: you better speak the truth by examining the subject methodically. And this is exactly what Mr. Allen S. Weiss has done in his "Mirrors of Infinity: The French Formal Garden and 17th-Century Metaphysics."
Mr. Weiss has chosen a very narrow subject for his dissertation: the aesthetic examination of the French Baroque garden through the analysis of only three gardens -- Vaux-le-Vicomte, Versailles and Chantilly -- by the era's greatest champion, Andre Le Notre. (Note that I did NOT state `three masterpieces', because, as Mr. Weiss will correctly prove, the gardens of Versailles are NOT a masterpiece. It might be one in terms of size, but certainly not in terms of design. It was a surprise to me, too.) At the core of Mr. Weiss's dissertation is his examination of this era's logic through its aesthetics, and therefore, he begins the book with the analysis and explanation of the contemporary paradigm both in the arts, philosophy and sciences. Excellent! (Every landscape design book should do that.) In the Preface, Mr. Weiss discusses the aesthetics of various garden designs of various eras, i.e., the Zen garden, the Italian Renaissance garden, etc., in order to provide a general background of garden logic, so to speak. Also, it is important to note that Mr. Weiss, throughout the book, questions the visitor of why he/she visits a garden and how this mindset affects our perceptions of a garden! In the subsequent chapter, Mr. Weiss explains the aesthetic transformation that occurred within the Baroque era from "motion" to rigidity, the latter being the paradigm for Le Notre. In the following three chapters, Mr. Weiss gives both a historical account of each garden as well as a complete aesthetic analysis to show what makes each garden unique. Finally, Mr. Weiss concludes with a Postface in which he recounts a couple more historical facts about the French Baroque garden in subsequent centuries, and concludes by, once again, questioning us why we, the visitors, enter these gardens. This is actually very important.
With this book, Mr. Weiss has not only given a thorough dissertation of French Baroque landscape design, but has elevated the level of dissertation of a landscape design era to such a degree that all future discussions of any other landscape design era MUST now be as methodical and complete as his: he has "raised the bar" of landscape design dissertation.
The Quotation of Versailles.......2000-03-09
This book was recommended as further reading in my History of European Garden Design course, and proved helpful in understanding the quotation of Versailles to the imperial gardens of Rome, and then lead me to research why L'Enfant would use Versailles for the blueprint of Washington D.C.
Elegant, gracefully erudite, and concise........1998-08-29
An elegant, gracefully erudite and concise intellectual history. It is a focussed and yet wide-ranging look at the function and meaning of French 18th century formal gardens, specifically Vaux-le-Vicomte, Versailles, and Chantilly. The sources cited are also fascinating, and it is a book that leads you to many others. I found it quite wonderful, and am looking forward to reading more by the author.
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Princely Gardens
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Release Date: 1986-04-15 |
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Gartenfeste: Das Fest im Garten - Gartenmotive im Fest
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Art of Formal Gardens
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