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Desert de Retz : A Late Eighteenth-Century French Folly Garden; The Artful Landscape of Monsieur de Monville by Diana Ketcham (1994, Hardcover)
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MIT, 1994 hardback. Book Condition; Like New, clean and unmarked. Firm binding, covers are fine. jacket in Like New condition. This is a gift quality book. 135 pages. That limited, fine-press edition is long out of print and much sought after.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-100262111861
ISBN-139780262111867
eBay Product ID (ePID)96939
Product Key Features
Number of Pages138 Pages
Publication NameDesert de Retz : A Late Eighteenth-Century French Folly Garden; The Artful Landscape of Monsieur de Monville
LanguageEnglish
SubjectLandscape, Europe / France, General
Publication Year1994
FeaturesRevised
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaArchitecture, Gardening, History
AuthorDiana Ketcham
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight31.7 Oz
Item Length11 in
Item Width9.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN93-050749
TitleLeadingLe
Reviews"Diana Ketchum's magnificently researched and beautifully accomplished text, with its accompanying images, is not a book for mere specialists. It is a book of interest to garden enthusiasts, to art historians, to surrealists-to anyone with a taste for fantasy, architectural metaphor, the poetry of vision, the aesthetics of stone and leaf." -Arthur C. Danto, Johnsonian Professor of Philosophy, Columbia University
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal712/.6/0944366
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisThe Desert de Retz, the supreme surviving example of the folly garden, is one of the most amply and beautifully documented of France's historic gardens. Since 1990, when the Arion Press published the first book on this garden outside of Paris, the Desert de Retz has been transformed by an ongoing restoration. That limited, fine-press edition is long out of print and much sought after. This new edition reproduces in a smaller oblong format the material in the original book. Diana Ketcham's text has been expanded and updated to reflect recent scholarship and physical changes to the site. There are also new photographs that show the restored landscape and the complete restoration of the folly known as the Broken Columnto its original state as a false ruin. The 100 illustrations consist of views of the construction of the park (1774-1789); models from antiquity and analogues in contemporary gardens; facsimiles of the 26 engravings of the garden that appeared in Georges Le Rouge's Details de nouveaux jardins a la mode: Jardins anglo-chinois, the most important illustrated book on gardens of the eighteenth century; and photographs of the buildings and grounds taken by the British photographer Michael Kenna. These beautiful photographs, together with Diana Ketcham's carefully researched text, capture the haunting atmosphere of the place during its transition from the romantic, overgrown state of benign neglect, which so intrigued the Surrealists, to the clearing and building that today preserve a balance between the encroachments of unruly vegetation and disintegration.
LC Classification NumberSB466.F83D474 1994
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