What Gardens Mean

by Stephanie Ross

Book Overview

Are gardens works of art? What is involved in creating a garden? How are gardens experienced by those who stroll through them?

In What Gardens Mean, Stephanie Ross draws on philosophy as well as the histories of art, gardens, culture, and ideas to explore the magical lure of gardens. Paying special attention to the amazing landscape gardens of eighteenth-century England, she situates gardening among the other fine arts, documenting...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226728072
• ISBN13: 9780226728070
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.5" x 9.3"