Gardens at the Frontier: New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes

ISBN-13: 9780815347903 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 106 str.

James Beattie

Opis

Gardens at the Frontier explores garden history’s thematic, geographical, and methodological frontiers through a focus on gardens as sites of cultural contact. This book was originally published as a special issue of Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes.

Spis treści

Preface  Introduction – Gardens at the frontier: new methodological perspectives on garden history and designed landscapes  1. Chinese sources in the Japanese tea garden  2. China on a plate: a willow pattern garden realized  3. Zheng Yuanxun’s ‘A Personal Record of My Garden of Reflections’  4. On loanwords and calques: where the language of design meets the language of geology  5. Gardens, history and the designer: contributions to historiography  6. Rethinking Australian natural gardens and national identity, 1950-1979  7. W.W. Smith and the transformation of the Ashburton domain ‘from a wilderness into a beauty spot’, 1894 to 1904  8. The cultural history of the garden gnome in New Zealand

O autorze

James Beattie is Associate Professor of Science in Society at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. His work focuses on the Asia-Pacific region, mostly over the last 200 years. He is especially interested in cross-cultural exchanges occasioned by British imperialism, and the nexus between environments, gardens, health, and art. He is author of nine books and over 60 articles and chapters.