Gardens and Imagination

Cultural History and Agency

Edited by Michel Conan

    • Introduction. Methods and Perspectives for the Study of Gardens and their Reception, by Michael Conan
    • Performative Roles
    • Chapter 1. The Traces of the Traces: Reflections of the Garden in the Persian Mystical Imagination, by Maria Eva Subtelny
    • Chapter 2. Body and Imagination in Urban Gardens of Song and Yuan, by Stephen West
    • Chapter 3. Sons’ Memorial Gardens and the Israeli Cultural Imagination, by Tal Alon Mozes
    • Cultural Constructions
    • Chapter 4. Gardens – Real and Imagined – in the Social Ecology of Early Modern Ottoman Culture, by Walter Andrews
    • Chapter 5. Landscapes of Ruin and the Imagination in the Antiquarian Gardens of Renaissance Rome, by Kathleen Christian
    • Chapter 6. Perception and Representation of Famous Sites in Japanese Culture: The Significance of Meisho in Landscape and Garden Imagination, by Sylvie Brosseau
    • Dialectics of Fiction and Life
    • Chapter 7. The Country Estate and Russian Literary Imagination (1761–1917), by Ekaterina Dmitrieva
    • Chapter 8. Mirrors and Windows: Fictional Imagination in Later Chinese Garden Culture, by Richard Strassberg
    • Individual Processes
    • Chapter 9. “Mt. Sumeru in a Mustard Seed”: Imagery and Polemics in Wang Shizhen’s Garden Essays, by Yinong Xu
    • Chapter 10. Dramatizing Garden Imagination in Baroque Spain, by Maryrica Ortiz Lottman
    • Contributors
    • Index
  • Cover: Gardens and Imagination

Michel Conan is the former Director of Garden and Landscape Studies, Dumbarton Oaks.