Women and the Collaborative Art of Gardens

From Antiquity to the Present
Herausgeber: Pagán, Victoria E; Page, Judith W

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the garden and its agency in the history of the built and natural environments, as evidenced in landscape architecture, literature, art, archaeology, history, photography, and film. It reveals the significant ways in which women write themselves into the accounts of garden design, practice, and history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781032464077
• ISBN-10: 1032464070
• Artikelnr.: 68476552

Autorenporträt

Victoria E. Pagán is Professor of Classics at the University of Florida, USA. Judith W. Page is Professor of English and Distinguished Teaching Scholar Emerita at the University of Florida, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Garden Design as Feminist Ground 2. Pompeian Gardens and
the Archaeological Imagination 3. The Garden's Transformational Artifice in
Valois France 4. Garden Theory, Gardening Practice: William and Dorothy
Wordsworth 5. Places for the Spirit, Photographs of Traditional African
American Gardens 6. On the Diagonal, through the Window: Marie Menken's
Glimpse of the Garden, 1957 and Rosalind Nashashibi's Vivian's Garden, 2017
7. Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell at Kew Gardens Epilogue: What If We
Start with the Garden?