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by Betsy Geraghty Fryberger; Essay by Paula Deitz; Essay by Elizabeth S. Eustis

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This beautifully illustrated volume examines the garden as an enduring and evolving cultural resource, in two hundred works by more than one hundred artists. Prints, drawings, photographs, and paintings illuminate the changing aesthetics and uses of gardens from sixteenth-century Italian villas and Louis XIV's Versailles to such democratic urban parks as New York City's Central Park and San Francisco's Crissy Field, adapted from a former military base. Artists' representations of gardens have been organized first to highlight design concepts and individual features, then to focus on historic gardens and parks, and finally to survey the activities within those settings. Among the earliest works included is an engraving of a drawing made in 1570 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder of a garden being vigorously cultivated by many workers. Two centuries later, Giovanni Battista Piranesi and Jean-Honore Fragonard represented the Villa d'Este at Tivoli in a state of neglected grandeur; Hubert Robert's painting of Mereville depicted a garden he helped design. By 1900 Eugene Atget's photographs of Versailles and Camille Pissarro's paintings of the Tuileries convey the enduring structure of French formal gardens. In contrast, American artists Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, and James McNeill Whistler depicted the pleasures of social activities in that setting. Photographs by Michael Kenna and Bruce Davidson offer contemporary perspectives on these issues.

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Artists have long observed gardens.

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"For centuries, artists have represented the glories of wondrous gardens. Like a vivid bouquet of flowers, The Changing Garden gathers together a variety of lovely prints, drawings, photographs, and paintings depicting picturesque garden views, formal designs, and natural features. This book is essential for anyone seeking a visual history and interesting perspectives of grand gardens--from the Villa d'Este and Versailles to contemporary experiences of city parks."--Marilyn Symmes, editor and author, Fountains: Splash and Spectacle, Water and Design from the Renaissance to the Present "The Changing Garden is the first book that asks us to stop and appreciate many of the 'documents' of the history of European and American gardens. It addresses the development of the representation of gardens, and the story it tells proves to be a fascinating chapter in the history of art, particularly for the history of prints and engravings."--Guy Walton, author of Louis XIV's Versailles

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"For centuries, artists have represented the glories of wondrous gardens. Like a vivid bouquet of flowers, The Changing Garden gathers together a variety of lovely prints, drawings, photographs, and paintings depicting picturesque garden views, formal designs, and natural features. This book is essential for anyone seeking a visual history and interesting perspectives of grand gardens--from the Villa d'Este and Versailles to contemporary experiences of city parks."--Marilyn Symmes, editor and author, Fountains: Splash and Spectacle, Water and Design from the Renaissance to the Present "The Changing Garden is the first book that asks us to stop and appreciate many of the 'documents' of the history of European and American gardens. It addresses the development of the representation of gardens, and the story it tells proves to be a fascinating chapter in the history of art, particularly for the history of prints and engravings."--Guy Walton, author of Louis XIV's Versailles

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  • Title The Changing Garden: Four Centuries of European and American Art
  • Author Betsy Geraghty Fryberger; Essay by Paula Deitz; Essay by Elizabeth S. Eustis
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 258
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of California Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.
  • Date July 25, 2003
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780520238831 / 0520238834
  • Weight 2.1 lbs (0.95 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.98 x 8.61 x 0.77 in (27.89 x 21.87 x 1.96 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Gardens in art
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2003002796
  • Dewey Decimal Code 760.044

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Citations

  • Choice, 02/01/2004, Page 1068
  • New York Times, 12/07/2003, Page 22

About the author

Betsy G. Fryberger is Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University. She is the author of Picasso: Graphic Magician/Prints from the Norton Simon Museum (1999), and, with Lorenz Eitner and Carol M. Osborne, Stanford University Museum of Art: The Drawing Collection (1993).
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