Screen LibraryWomen and the collaborative art of gardens : from antiquity to the present /
"Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens explores the garden and its agency in the history of the built and natural environments, as evidenced in landscape architecture, literature, art, archaeology, history, photography, and film. Throughout the book, each chapter centers the act of collabo...
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Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
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| Publisher Address: | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2024. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge environmental literature, culture and media
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"Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens explores the garden and its agency in the history of the built and natural environments, as evidenced in landscape architecture, literature, art, archaeology, history, photography, and film. Throughout the book, each chapter centers the act of collaboration, from garden clubs of the early twentieth century as powerful models of women's leadership, to the more intimate partnerships between family members, to the delicate relationship between artist and subject. Women emerge in every chapter, whether as gardeners, designers, owners, writers, illustrators, photographers, filmmakers, or subjects, but the contributors to this dynamic collection unseat common assumptions about the role of women in gardens to make manifest the significant ways in which women write themselves into the accounts of garden design, practice, and history. The book reveals the power of gardens to shape human existence, even as humans shape gardens and their representations in a variety of media, including brilliantly illuminated manuscripts, intricately carved architectural spaces, wall paintings, black and white photographs, and wood cuts. Ultimately, the volume reveals that gardens are best apprehended when understood as products of collaboration. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of gardens and culture, ancient Rome, art history, British literature, medieval France, film studies, women's studies, photography, African American Studies, and landscape architecture"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 181 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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9781032464077 1032464070 9781032464091 1032464097 |
| Index Number: | SB451 |
| CLC: | TU986-05 |
| Call Number: | TU986-05/W872 |
| Contents: | Garden design as feminist ground / Thaïsa Way -- Pompeian gardens and the archaeological imagination / Bettina Bergmann -- The garden's transformational artifice in Valois France / Elizabeth Ross -- Garden theory, gardening practice : William and Dorothy Wordsworth / Judith W. Page -- Places for the spirit, photographs of traditional African American gardens / Vaughn Sills -- On the diagonal, through the window : Marie Menken's Glimpse of the garden, 1957 and Rosalind Nashashibi's Vivian's garden, 2017 / Maureen Turim -- Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell at Kew Gardens / Elise L. Smith -- Epilogue : what if we start with the garden? / Judith W. Page. |