- The Alhambra
- Robert Irwin
- The Alhambra is the only Muslim palace to have survived since the Middle Ages and has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. In his absorbing new book, Irwin, Arabist and novelist, examines its history and allure.
- Hardcover 2004
- American Garden Literature in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection (1785-1900)
- Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
- Jack Becker
- Paperback 1999
- Ancient Roman Gardens
- Edited by Elizabeth Blair MacDougall
- Edited by Wilhelmina F. Jashemski
- Hardcover 1981
- Ancient Roman Villa Gardens
- Edited by Elizabeth Blair MacDougall
- Hardcover 1987
- Baroque Garden Cultures
- Michel Conan
- Baroque Garden Cultures proposes a new approach to the study of baroque gardens, examining the social reception of gardens as a means to understand garden culture in general and exploring baroque gardens as a feature of baroque cultures in particular.
- Hardcover 2005
- Beatrix Farrand's Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks
- Edited by Diane Kostial McGuire
- The Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks was prepared as a resource for those charged with maintenance of the gardens following their acquisition by Harvard University in 1941. Beatrix Farrand here explains the reasoning behind her plan for each of the gardens and stipulates how each should be cared for in order that its basic character remain intact.
- Paperback 1980
- Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872-1959)
- Edited by Diane Kostial McGuire
- Edited by Lois Fern
- Hardcover 1982
- Botanical Progress, Horticultural Innovations, and Cultural Changes
- Edited by Michel Conan
- Edited by W. John Kress
- This book highlights the religious, artistic, political, and economic consequences of horticultural pursuits, exploring the roles of peasants, botanists, horticulturists, nurserymen and gentlemen collectors in these developments, and concluding with a reflection on the future of horticulture in the present context of widespread environmental devastation and ecological uncertainty.
- Paperback 2007
- Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550-1850
- Edited by Michel Conan
- Essays in this volume explore this complex framework of relationships the diverse settings of Britain, France, Biedermeier Vienna, and renaissance Genoa. The volume confirms that gardens were objects of conspicuous consumption, but also challenges the theories of consumption set forth by Thorstein Veblen and Pierre Bourdieu, and explores the contributions of gardens to major cultural changes like the rise of public opinion, gender and family relationships, and capitalism.
- Hardcover 2002
- Byzantine Garden Culture
- Antony Littlewood
- Henry Maguire
- Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
- Individual essays discuss Byzantine conceptions of paradise, the textual evidence for monastic horticulture, animal and game parks, herbs in medicinal pharmacy, and the famous illustrated copy of Dioskorides's herbal manual in Vienna. An opening chapter explores questions and observations from the point of view of a non-Byzantine garden historian, and the closing chapter suggests possible directions for future scholarship in the field.
- Paperback 2002
- The Chinese Garden
- Maggie Keswick
- Revised by Alison Hardie
- Contributions by Charles Jencks
- Updated and expanded in this third edition, with an introduction by Alison Hardie, many new illustrations, and an updated list of gardens in China accessible to visitors, Maggie Keswick's engaging work remains unparalleled as an introduction to the Chinese garden.
- Hardcover 2003
- Contemporary Garden Aesthetics, Creations and Interpretations
- Edited by Michel Conan
- The present renewal of garden art demands a new approach to garden aesthetics. This book considers exceptional creations around the world and proposes new forms of garden experience using a variety of critical perspectives.
- Paperback 2007
- Dangerous Garden
- David Stuart
- Gardener and botanist David Stuart tells the fascinating story of botanical medicine, and chronicles how the herbal materia medica of healing and killing plants has sparked wars, helped establish intercontinental trade routes, and seeded fortunes.
- Hardcover 2004
- Dutch Garden in the Seventeenth Century
- Edited by John Dixon Hunt
- Hardcover 1990
- Environmentalism in Landscape Architecture
- Edited by Michel Conan
- The papers presented in this volume range from proposals for new design approaches, historical analysis of the relationship between the practice of landscape architecture and environmentalism, to the theories of early practitioners of landscape architecture imbued by an environmentalist outlook.
- Hardcover 2001
- Fountains, Statues, and Flowers
- Elizabeth Blair MacDougall
- The essays in this volume focus on the different aspects of Italian gardens of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It is divided into two parts, with the first part concentrating on the decorations in Roman gardens of the sixteenth century, and the second considering two particular sites and their histories.
- Hardcover 1994
- Garden History
- Edited by John Dixon Hunt
- The study of garden history has grown rapidly over the last twenty years. This collection of essays explores the issues, methods, and approaches that students in landscape architecture have developed during that period to cope with the expanding subject of gardens and their history.
- Hardcover 1992
- Gardens and Imagination
- Edited by Michel Conan
- From mirroring the true reality of God in Sufi Persia to the enjoyment of fictitious identities in Rome or present-day Granada, the ways of imagination in gardens are infinitely varied. This book explores how gardens could be imagined, and also how they could be used to trigger the imagination by very different cultures in Japan, China, Russia, the Ottoman Empire, Italy, Spain, and Israel.
- Paperback 2008
- The Gardens at San Lorenzo in Piacenza, 1656-1665
- Ada V. Segre
- This fascinating two-volume set includes a photographic reproduction of an anonymous seventeenth-century Italian gardener's notebook from Dumbarton Oaks's Rare Books Collection. The notebook is a record of the planting of three flower gardens at San Lorenzo and provides insight into the creation of a seventeenth-century garden. Ada Segre's accompanying study of the notebook is a groundbreaking example of garden archaeology.
- Hardcover 2006
- The Gardens of Emily Dickinson
- Judith Farr
- Louise Carter, Contributor
- In this first substantial study of Emily Dickinson's devotion to flowers and gardening, Farr seeks to join both poet and gardener in one creative personality. She casts new light on Dickinson's temperament, her aesthetic sensibility, and her vision of the relationship between art and nature, revealing that the gardener's intimate understanding of horticulture helped shape the poet's choice of metaphors for every experience. A chapter by Louise Carter hypothesizes Dickinson's methods of gardening, explaining how one might grow her flowers today.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005
- Gardens, City Life, and Culture
- Edited by Michel Conan
- Edited by Chen Wangheng
- Gardens have exerted a deep influence on the culture of cities. Considering each city as a whole, this book presents the profoundly different roles of gardens in cultural development and social life. Gardens, City Life, and Culture unveils an exciting domain of interplay between public and private action that is little known by citizen groups, city planners, and managers.
- Paperback 2008
- Hortus Librorum
- Laura Ten Eyck Byers
- Introduction by Elisabeth Blair
- Paperback 1983
- Humphry Repton
- Introduction by Stephen Daniels
- Humphry Repton
- This publication reproduces all the text pages and illustrations from the two Red Books in the collection of the Garden Library at Dumbarton Oaks; that for Brandsbury, produced in 1789 as the first Red Book, and the one for Glemham Hall, produced in 1791.
- Hardcover 1994
- John Evelyn's "Elysium Britannicum" and European Gardening
- Edited by Therese O'Malley
- Edited by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
- John Evelyn (1620-1706), an English virtuoso and writer, was a pivotal figure in seventeenth-century intellectual life in England. The contributors to this volume approach Evelyn and his work from diverse disciplines, including architectural and intellectual history and the histories of science, agriculture, gardens, and literature. They present a rich picture of the "Elysium Britannicum" as one of the central documents of late European humanism.
- Hardcover 1998
- Landscape Design and Experience of Motion
- Edited by Michel Conan
- Hardcover 2003
- Medieval Gardens
- Edited by Elizabeth Blair MacDougall
- Hardcover 1986
- Metamorphosis of the Private Sphere
- Xiaoshan Yang
- This book deals with the poetic configurations of the private garden in cities from the ninth to the eleventh century in relation to the development of the private sphere in Chinese literati culture. It focuses on the ways in which the new values and rhetoric associated with gardens and the objects found in them helped shape the processes of self-cultivation and self-imaging among the literati, as they searched for alternatives to conventional values at a time when traditional political, moral, and aesthetic norms were increasingly judged inapplicable or inadequate.
- Hardcover 2003
- The Middle East Garden Traditions
- Edited by Michel Conan
- This book unites new information and surprising results from the last fifteen years of garden research, at a remove from the clichés of Orientalism. Garden archaeology reveals the economic importance of Judean gardens in Roman times and the visual complexity of gardens created and transformed in Moorish Spain. More contemporary approaches unravel the cultural continuities, variations, and differences between gardens in the Middle East since Roman times and in the Islamic world.
- Paperback 2008
- Mughal Gardens
- James L. Wescoat
- Hardcover 1996
- Nature and Ideology
- Edited by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
- Hardcover 1997
- New England Forests Through Time
- David R. Foster
- John F. O'Keefe
- In New England Forests through Time historical and environmental lessons are told through the world-renowned dioramas in Harvard's Fisher Museum. These remarkable models have introduced New England's landscape to countless visitors and have appeared in many ecology, forestry, and natural history texts. This first book based on the dioramas conveys the phenomenal history of the land, the beauty of the models, and new insights into nature.
- Paperback 2000
- New England Natives
- Sheila Connor
- Taking us back to the birth of New England's forests, Sheila Connor shows us these trees evolving amidst a succession of human cultures, from the Archaic Indians who crafted canoes from white birch and snowshoes from ash, to the colonists who built ships of oak and pine, to the industrialists who laid railroad tracks on chestnut timber, to the tanners who used hemlock bark to treat the leather required to shoe the Union army. Lavishly illustrated.
- Paperback 1998 / Hardcover
- Olympic Sculpture Park for the Seattle Art Museum
- Edited by Joan Busquets
- Envisioned as a new urban model for sculpture parks, the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park is located on the city’s last undeveloped waterfront property—a nine-acre industrial site sliced by train tracks and an arterial road. The park not only brings art outside the museum walls but also brings the park itself into the landscape of the city. This study offers an opportunity to take a fresh look at the city and explore some hypotheses about the wider meaning of an urban design project.
- Paperback 2008
- Patricia Johanson's House and Garden Commission
- Xin Wu
- Foreword by Stephen Bann
- In 1969, House and Garden magazine commissioned one of the first minimalist artists, Patricia Johanson, to propose new directions for American garden art. Having never been exhibited or published before as a whole, the resulting garden proposals reveal an unknown dimension of the New York art world of the late 1960s.
- Paperback 2008
- Performance and Appropriation
- Edited by Michel Conan
- Breaking with the idea that gardens are places of indulgence and escapism, these studies of ritualized practices reveal that gardens in Europe, Asia, the United States, and the Caribbean have in fact made significant contributions to cultural change.
- Paperback 2007
- Persian Gardens and Garden Pavilions
- Donald Newton Wilber
- This study traces the history of gardens in Iran from the earliest remains of the Timurid period to those of the Qajar dynasty of the nineteenth century. Illustrations from early travel books and paintings show the original conditions of now ruined gardens.
- Hardcover 1979
- Perspectives on Garden Histories
- Edited by Michel Conan
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback
- Places of Commemoration
- Edited by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
- Places of Commemoration examines commemorative sites of different character, including gardens, landscapes, memorials, cemeteries, and sites of former Nazi concentration camps, detailing the ideas behind the creation of memorials and monuments and the struggles over the narratives they present.
- Hardcover 2001
- The Plants that Shaped Our Gardens
- David Stuart
- From the Dutch tulip mania, the eighteenth-century European passion for "American gardens," and on to the rhododendron craze of the nineteenth century, Stuart's book traces the shape of the modern garden as it changed with the fashion, returning at last to classic, cottage garden varieties long neglected in favor of the foreign and new. In conclusion, Stuart looks at plant prospecting today--now that the collecting of plants may prove essential to protecting botanical diversity and preserving plant species rapidly disappearing from the wild.
- Hardcover 2002
- Popular Annuals of Eastern North America, 1865-1914
- Peggy Cornett Newcomb
- Paperback 1985
- Regional Garden Design in the United States
- Edited by Therese O'Malley
- Edited by Marc Treib
- Regionalism has become a much-discussed design issue for landscape architects in recent years. Increased mobility, uprootedness, and the pace of change in an increasingly technological society have contributed to interest in this concept, which places value on cultural continuity in local areas. This approach to garden design attempts to capture the spirit of the place, the plant material, and symbolic qualities that define a region's natural and cultural character. These essays lay the foundation for examining regionalism in American garden design. The organization of the papers is by geographical area, covering the West Coast, the Midwest, the South, and New England.
- Hardcover 1995
- A Reunion of Trees
- Stephen Spongberg
- Prologue by Sam Bass Warner
- Stephen Spongberg's vividly written and lavishly illustrated "travel story" of trees and shrubs tells of intrepid explorers who journeyed to the far corners of the globe and brought back to Europe and North America a wealth of exotic plant species.
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1998
- Sacred Gardens and Landscapes
- Edited by Michel Conan
- Studies of rituals in sacred gardens and landscapes offer tantalizing insights into the significance of gardens and landscapes in the societies of India, ancient Greece, Pre-Columbian Mexico, medieval Japan, post-Renaissance Europe, and America. Each section of this book is devoted to a different form of agency, together revealing a profound cultural significance of gardens previously overlooked by studies of garden style.
- Paperback 2007
- Theme Park Landscapes
- Edited by Terence Young
- Edited by Robert Riley
- Hardcover
- Thoreau's Country
- David R. Foster
- In 1977 David Foster took to the woods of New England to build a cabin with his own hands. Along with a few tools, he brought the journals of Henry David Thoreau. Foster was struck by how different the forested landscape around him was from the one Thoreau described more than a century earlier. Part ecological and historical puzzle, this book brings a vanished countryside to life and offers a rich record of human imprint upon the land. Foster adds the perspective of a modern forest ecologist and landscape historian, using the journals to trace themes of historical and social change.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001
- Treatise on the Theory and Practice of Landscape Gardening
- Andrew Jackson Downing
- Introduction by Therese O'Malley
- Hardcover 1991
- The Vernacular Garden
- Edited by John Dixon Hunt
- Edited by Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn
- Hardcover 1995
