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Gardens and imagination : cultural history and agency
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Gardens and imagination : cultural history and agency

Author: Michel Conan; Dumbarton Oaks.; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2008.
Edition/Format:   Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Congresses
Material Type: Conference publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Michel Conan; Dumbarton Oaks.; Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
ISBN: 9780884023357 0884023354
OCLC Number: 173218757
Notes: Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture, XXX, held at The Huntington Library, May 19-20, 2006 and co-organized by Dumbarton Oaks and the Huntington Library.
"A symposium cosponsored by The Huntington and Dumbarton Oaks."
Description: 259 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Contents: Methods and perspectives for the study of gardens and their reception / Michael Conan --
Performative roles. The traces of the traces: reflections of the garden in the Persian mystical imagination / Maria Eva Subtelny ; Body and imagination in urban gardens of Song and Yuan / Stephen West ; Sons' memorial gardens and the Israeli cultural imagination / Tal Alon Mozes --
Cultural constructions. Gardens - real and imagined - in the social ecology of early modern Ottoman culture / Walter Andrews ; Landscapes of rain and the imagination in the antiquarian gardens of Renaissance Rome / Kathleen Christian ; Perception and representations of famous sites in Japanese culture: the significance of Meisho in landscape and garden imagination / Sylvie Brosseau --
Dialectics of fiction and life. The country estate and Russian literary imagination (1761-1917) / Ekaterina Dmitrieva ; Mirrors and windows: fictional imagination in later Chinese garden culture / Richard Strassberg --
Individual processes. "Mt. Sumeru in a mustard seed": imagery and polemics in Wang Shizhen's garden essays / Yinong Xu ; Dramatizing garden imagination in Baroque Spain / Maryrica Ortiz Lottman.
Responsibility: edited by Michel Conan.
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