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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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