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Tradition and innovation in French garden art : chapters of a new history
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Tradition and innovation in French garden art : chapters of a new history

Author: John Dixon Hunt; Michel Conan; Claire Goldstein
Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2002.
Series: Penn studies in landscape architecture
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: John Dixon Hunt; Michel Conan; Claire Goldstein
ISBN: 0812236343 9780812236347
OCLC Number: 48435231
Notes: Papers from a symposium held at the University of Pennsylvania.
Description: viii, 242 p. : ill., maps ; 29 cm.
Contents: The cultivation of a king, or the flower gardens of Louis XIV / Elizabeth Hyde -- Engineering and French formal gardens in the reign of Louis XIV / Chandra Mukerji -- Jules Hardouin Mansart and André Le Nostre at Dampierre / F. Hamilton Hazlehurst -- Making breathing room : public gardens and city planning in eighteenth-century France / Richard Cleary -- The tree : rural tradition and landscape innovation in the eighteenth century / Yves Luginbühl -- Francesco Bettini and the pedagogy of garden design in late eighteenth-century France / David L. Hays -- The garden of the perfectibilists : Méréville and the Désert de Retz / Michel Baridon -- Jean-Marie Morel and the invention of landscape architecture / Joseph Disponzio -- The coming of age of the bourgeois garden / Michel Conan -- Freedom from the garden : Gabriel Guévrékian and a new territory of experience / George Dodds -- Reinventing the Parisian park / John Dixon Hunt -- Stories for tomorrow / Bernard Lassus.
Series Title: Penn studies in landscape architecture
Responsibility: edited by John Dixon Hunt and Michel Conan ; with the assistance of Claire Goldstein.

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