What Gardens Mean

In this beautifully illustrated and elegantly written book, Stephanie Ross explores the magical lure of gardens. Paying special attention to the landscape gardens of eighteenth-century England, Ross situates gardening among other fine arts, documenting the complex messages gardens can convey and tracing connections between gardens and the art of painting.

Stephanie Ross is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Missouri, St. Louis.

List of Illustrations

ix

Preface

xi

Gardens and Art, Gardens as Art

1

(24)

Garden Variety

1

(5)

Definition

6

(4)

Art

10

(8)

Garden Riddles

18

(7)

Some Eighteenth-Century Background

25

(96)

The French Formal Garden

25

(9)

The Grand Tour

34

(6)

Academies and Theory

40

(5)

Gardens

45

(4)

The Sister Arts I

Gardens and Poetry

49

(1)

The Sister Arts

49

(2)

Gardens, Poems, and Emblems

51

(4)

Pope's Twickenham

55

(4)

Stowe

59

(4)

Stourhead

63

(3)

West Wycombe

66

(4)

Intention

70

(3)

Multiple Interpretation

73

(8)

Style

81

(4)

The Sister Arts II

Gardens and Painting

85

(1)

Introduction

85

(6)

Imitation and Allusion

91

(16)

Representation

107

(11)

Gardens Again

118

(3)

The Picturesque

121

(34)

Introduction

121

(2)

The Picturesque

123

(4)

Price and Knight

127

(2)

Sir Uvedale Price

129

(7)

Richard Payne Knight

136

(5)

Transfer of Technique

141

(11)

Conclusion

152

(3)

The Beholder's Share

155

(34)

Introduction

155

(1)

Sense

156

(8)

Imagination

164

(11)

Understanding

175

(14)

Gardens and the Death of Art

189

(36)

Introduction

189

(1)

The Death of Art

190

(3)

The Mimetic Model

193

(4)

The Hegelian Model

197

(3)

Difficulties with the Hegelian Model

200

(1)

Gardens' Fate

201

(7)

Earthworks and Environmental Art

208

(11)

Tracing a Lineage

219

(6)

Notes

225

(36)

Bibliography

261

(6)

Index

267

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