1 online resource (xvi, 154 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates) : illustrations (some color)
Contents
Title page -- Table of contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Early Renaissance experiments 1500-1688 -- Chapter 2 The Grand Manner Late 17th century -1720s -- Chapter 3 The Romantic revolution 1730s-1820s -- Chapter 4 Science, display and pattern books 1830s-1900 -- Chapter 5 Arts and crafts 1890s-1920s -- Chapter 6 Plantsmen's gardens -- Chapter 7 Modernism and abstraction f rom 1930s -- Colour section -- Chapter 8 The garden as art from late 1970s -- Chapter 9 Technology gardens -- Chapter 10 Anomalies
Chapter 11 Temporary gardens Chapter 12 Essentials of a grand tour -- Chapter 13 Paradise lost? -- Further reading -- Index