American Eden : from Monticello to Central Park to our backyards : what our gardens tell us about who we are
Summary
From Frederick Law Olmsted to Richard Neutra, Michelle Obama to our neighbors, Americans throughout history have revealed something of themselves--their personalities, desires, and beliefs--in the gardens they create. Rooted in the time and place of their making, as much as in the minds and identiti... Full description
- Founding gardens (1600-1826)
- A walk in the park: suburbia and the sublime (1820-1890)
- The golden age: modernity and its discontents (1880-1915)
- Forward to the past: the long romance of the arts & crafts garden (1850-1945)
- California and the modern garden (1920-1960s)
- Art confronts nature, redux: triumphs and anxieties of landscape architecture (1940s-2000s)
- All our missing parts: money and virtue in the go-go years.