Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations
Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations
edited by Michel Conan contributions by Christian Tschumi, Udo Weilacher, Xin Wu, Stephen Bann, Jacky Bowring, Massimo Venturi Ferriolo, Susan Herrington, Peter Jacobs, Jacques Leenhardt, Priyaleen Singh and Michael Spens
Harvard University Press, 2007 Paper: 978-0-88402-325-8 Library of Congress Classification SB472.45.D86 2005 Dewey Decimal Classification 712
ABOUT THIS BOOK | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
The present renewal of garden art demands a new approach to garden aesthetics. This book considers exceptional creations around the world and proposes new forms of garden experience.
Using a variety of critical perspectives, the authors demonstrate a renewal of garden design and new directions for garden aesthetics, analyzing projects by Fernando Chacel (Brazil), Andy Goldsworthy (Great Britain), Charles Jencks (Great Britain), Patricia Johanson (U.S.), Dieter Kienast (Switzerland), Bernard Lassus (France), and Mohammed Shaheer (India). The first half of the volume begins with an argument for a return to John Dewey’s focus on “Art as Experience,” while the second half concludes with a debate on the respective roles of cognition and the senses, and of science and the visual arts.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations Introduction: In Defiance of
the Institutional Art World, by Michel Conan 3
"When Art is a Garden; Benny Farm by Claude Cormier" by Susan Herrington. 17
"The Re-enchantment of the Maegaki residence by Mirei Shigemori" by Christian Tschumi.
35
"Culture, Tradition and Contemporary Indian Landscape Design: 59 Mohammed Shaheer at
Sanskriti Kendra" by Priyaleen Singh "The Garden as the Last Luxury Today: 81
Thought Provoking Garden Projects by Dieter Kienast (1945-1998)" by Udo Weilacher "The
Colas Gardens by Bernard Lassus: 97
Coming to terms with Fleeting Encounters in a Decentered World" by Michel Conan.
"Echoes of Paradise: Fernando Chacel's Gardens in the Coastal Plain of Jacarepagua_." Peter
Jacobs 121
"Walking through the Crossing: The Draw at Sugar House Park by Patricia Johanson" by Xin
Wu 141
"The Garden at Portrack Designed and Created by Charles Jencks (1986-2004): 163
Entrapment and Release" by Michael Spens
"To Make the Stone[s] Stony: Defamiliarisation and Andy Goldsworthy's Garden of Stone"
by Jacky Bowring 181
"Cardada by Paolo Burgi: The Experience of the Gaze" by Massimo Venturi Ferriolo 199
"The Planetary Garden, Garden Unknown: On the Work of Landscaper Gilles Cle_ment" by
Jacques Leenhardt 223
"A 'Garden of the Hesperides': The Landscape Initiative of the Muse_e Gassendi, Digne, and
the National Park of Alpes de Haute-Provence" by Stephen Bann Contributors 235 251
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