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Author: Lucia Impelluso
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9780892368853
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Impelluso analyzes the constituent elements of gardens, both real and imagined, and uncovers their often-hidden symbolic meanings. Paintings and the nearly 400 works presented here provide a continuous visual record of the myriad forms of gardens.
Author: Keeyla Meadows
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781570613074
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this luscious book, award-winning garden designer and artist Keeyla Meadows reveals how to turn an ordinary garden into a work of art. With a unique approach combining art and gardening, she offers a personal vision of garden design accessible to all levels of gardeners. Meadows inspires and instructs so that gardeners become artists in their own right. This book, which draws on Meadows' own world famous and fanciful gardens, blends beautiful photographs, personal experiences and practical advice. The end result is as joyous as the gardens upon which it is based.
Author: Nils Büttner
Publisher: Abbeville Publishing Group
Published: 2008-09-23
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This book by Nils Buttner traces the history of gardens, as seen through the eyes of artists, over the course of 2,000 years. The focus of this book is not gardens themselves or different concepts of the garden, but rather the representation of gardens in art. In this study the author explains why pictures of gardens are a mirror of the social, historical, and aesthetic context in which gardens were conceived. He also examines how artists paint gardens by presenting some 185 beautifully reproduced pictures, including full views and details of both well-heralded and little-known masterpieces." "The wide-ranging coverage includes late-medieval devotional pictures featuring Madonnas in idyllic gardens, Botticelli's masterwork La Primavera, an allegory of love, set in a grove of orange trees, that was created for a bridal chamber; sixteenth-century views of well-known historic gardens, like those of the Vatican, which were in demand because of a new interest in geography and topography; realistic depictions of nature, without any attempt to beautify it, by Courbet and other so-called "naturalists'; painters' gardens, like Monet's Giverny; and representations of modern gardens, like David Hockney's Red Pots in the Garden, which are extremely varied in style and reflect the artist's subjectivity. In sum, the carefully chosen paintings in this book represent a progression of developments in art history and foster a deep appreciation for actual gardens as well as paintings of them."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Doris Kutschbach
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Looking at Monet's art in the context of his lifestyle, this book is suitable for artists, designers, gardeners, and life-style gurus alike.
Author: Judith B. Tankard
Publisher: ABRAMS
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Illustrated with original photographs of Shipman's superb gardens - many by photographer Mattie Edwards Hewitt which have never been previously published - and new photographs by Carol Betsch which were specially commissioned for this volume, the book documents in fascinating detail the life and work of one of America's most important and influential garden designers.
Author: Claire Takacs
Publisher:
Published: 2018-11
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9781743794708
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Australian Dreamscapes, Claire Takacs showcases the varied gardens found in the Australian landscape, from lush green oases to semi-arid settings. Claire profiles Australian gardens, gardeners and garden designers who are drawing on the international movement towards a more naturalistic approach to planting design. Similar to the New Perennial movement and Prairie-style, these gardens take into consideration how plants grow in the wild and have created highly textural, visually pleasing gardens that appeal not only to our love of beauty, but that sit gently in their surrounding landscapes, giving a strong sense of place. Across 15 chapters and 22 gardens, Claire's stunning photography is accompanied by essays written by the garden owners or designers. The chapters detail the journey to establishing the gardens, their motivation, and the struggles and rewards the gardens bring day in, day out. Beautifully presented, Australian Dreamscapes is a stunning journey through the diversity of gardens in Australia.
Author: Valerie Easton
Publisher:
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781570612442
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Artists do it differently. Make gardens, that is. This lusciously photographed book showcases 10 creative, unconventional, sometimes outrageous gardens made by painters, glass blowers, collage artists and sculptors. Their uncommon approaches provide fresh ideas for gardeners tired of the same old beds, borders and lawns. "The Artist's Eye" section of each chapter offers practical advice for readers to use in their own gardens.
Author: Madison Cox
Publisher: Abrams
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780810919310
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 132 stunningly beautiful color photographs made by Erica Lennard specially for this book, we are shown a vast array of garden styles and places.
Author: Jackie Bennett
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
Published: 2019-10-29
Total Pages: 227
ISBN-13: 1781318743
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Artist’s Garden will feature up to 20 gardens that have inspired and been home to some of the greatest painters of history. These gardens not only supplied the inspiration for creative works but also illuminate the professional motivation and private life of the artists themselves – from Cezanne’s house in the south of France to Childe Hassam at Celia Thaxter’s garden off the coast off Maine. Flowers and gardens have often been the first choice for artists looking for a subject. A garden close to the artist’s studio is not only convenient for daily material and ideas, but also has the advantage of changing through the seasons and over time. Claude Monet’s Giverny was the catalyst for hundreds of great paintings (by Monet and other artists), each one different from the one before. Sometimes a whole village becomes the focus for a colony of artists as at Gerberoy in Picardy and Skagen on the northernmost tip of Denmark. This book is about the real homes and gardens that inspired these great artists – gardens that can still be visited today. The relationship between artist and garden is a complex one. A few artists, including Pierre Bonnard and his neighbour Monet were keen gardeners, as much in love with their plants as their work, while for others like Sorolla in Madrid, his courtyard home was both a sanctuary and a source of ideas.
Author: Virginia Tuttle Clayton
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Arranged chronologically, the five chapters present the image of the garden as it evolves from the Middle Ages through the nineteenth century. Early prints illustrate biblical garden scenes and medieval gardens of love, while Renaissance images portray secular gardens and typographical plans and views. The grand style of the garden design emerges in the baroque period, followed by a more natural style in the eighteenth century. In the nineteenth century, garden imagery changes as artists begin to depict small, private gardens and public parks rather than the great aristocratic estates.
