American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are - Softcover

Graham, Wade

Softcover

ISBN 10: 006158343X ISBN 13: 9780061583438

Verlag: HarperPerennial, 2013

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"Mr. Graham recounts his tale with considerable verve and a vast erudition in the history of gardening and the arts generally... Among much else, Mr. Graham shows us that the history of how our nation grew can be found in what it has grown." -- John Steele Gordon, Wall Street Journal "We are what we plant, L.A.-based writer Wade Graham posits in his history of gardens. When he isn't explaining the economic and cultural influences, he crafts fascinating profiles... An engaging look at our own pieces of paradise." -- Ann Herold, Los Angeles Magazine "A shrewd, comprehensive and often entertaining guide... Sure to be a scholarly as well as popular resource for years to come... And its illustrations and photos tour of some of the world's most ravishing gardens." -- Tricia Springstubb, Cleveland Plain Dealer "The most comprehensive and readable history ever written about the men and women who created the environments in which we now live... will change the way you look not only at gardens, but also at American history and the hybrid world-part nature, part design-in which we live." -- Charles Donelan, Santa Barbara Independent

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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. Monticello's gardens helped Jefferson reconcile his conflicted feelings about slavery - and take his mind off his increasing debt. Edith Wharton's gardens made her feel more European and superior to her wealthy but insufficiently sophisticated countrymen. Martha Stewart's how-to instructions helped bring Americans back into their gardens, while at the same time stoking and exploiting our anxieties about social class. Melding biography, history, and cultural commentary in a one-of-a-kind narrative, "American Eden" presents a dynamic, sweeping look at this country's landscapes and the visionaries behind them. "American Eden" offers an inclusive definition of the garden, considering intentional landscapes that range from domestic kitchen gardens to city parks and national parks, suburban backyards and golf courses, public plazas and Manhattan's High Line park, reclaimed from freight train tracks. And it exposes the overlap between garden-making and painting, literature, and especially architecture-the garden's inseparable sibling-to reveal the deep interconnections between the arts and their most inspired practitioners. Beautifully illustrated with color and black-and-white images, "American Eden" is at once a different kind of garden book and a different kind of American history, one that offers a compelling, untold story-a saga that mirrors and illuminates our nation's invention, and constant reinvention, of itself.

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• Verlag: HarperPerennial
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 006158343X
• ISBN 13: 9780061583438
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480