Nature and Art: Dutch Garden and Landscape Architecture 1650-1740 (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture) [Hardcover]

Erik de Jong (Author), Ann Langenakens (Translator)

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Publication Date: 16 Jun 2001 | Series: Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title In its golden age, according to Erik de Jong, Dutch landscape architecture constituted a major, distinct phase in the European development of the art. In Nature and Art, de Jong examines five garden reconstructions-Het Loo, Heemstede, Zijdebalen, and the medicinal gardens of Leiden and Haarlem-within their unique cultural and geographic framework in order to establish the historical importance and singularity of Dutch garden art. Interest in geometric gardens was shared by all strata of Dutch society from courtiers to burghers; paintings, travel books, and poetry of the period contain evidence of the landscape garden's popularity. While the Dutch professed an ideal of outdoor life, in reality it was not nature that held sway, but rather design, which subjected nature to the rules of art. The garden was not so much a place of solitary retreat as a work of art through which to reveal oneself to the outside world. De Jong sets specific Dutch creations on the European map alongside the works of Le Notre in France, and argues for their independent identity in a rival tradition of equal importance.

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Hardcover: 264 pages
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (16 Jun 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0812235436
ISBN-13: 978-0812235432
Product Dimensions: 2.5 x 23.8 x 23.7 cm
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,000,689 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Nature and Art will excite garden historians and should interest the general public as well."-Journal of the New England Garden History Society "This remarkable volume will take its place as the classic study of the key period in the history of the Dutch garden."-Choice

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Erik de Jong is Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Art History at Amsterdam Free University.

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