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Garden Ornament at Dumbarton Oaks: Linda Lott; James N. Carder, With; Paperback March 2009

Twentieth-Century New England Land Conservation: Edited by Charles H. W. Foster; Hardcover March 2009

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 November 2008

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 June 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 March 2008

Gardens and Cultural Change: Edited by Michel Conan; Edited by Jeffrey Quilter; Five authors explore the variety of relationships between garden making and cultural change in Argentina, the Caribbean, Mexico, and the United States. They show how gardens express popular cultural invention and attempts at political manipulation, as well as provide places of cultural resistance by subjugated people.; Paperback February 2008

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 February 2008