Sound and Scent in the Garden - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0884024229 ISBN 13 : 9780884024224

Editeur : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, 2017

Synopsis

While we often approach gardens as things to be seen thus engaging the rational, intellectual part of the human brain Sound and Scent in the Garden explores the more elusive experiences of sound and smell. These senses are important dimensions of garden design and performance and often have a powerful effect on the human body, yet they may also be ephemeral and difficult to study.

The contributors to the volume explore the sensory experience of gardens specifically as places where people encounter landscape in a staged manner, as a result of intentional design. How do the senses shape the experience of those places? In what ways are plants, gardens, and landscapes produced so as to stimulate the senses? What evidence do we have of historical sensory experiences? What is lost when we forget to acknowledge the sensory environment of the past or simply overlook its traces?

The volume demonstrates a wide variety of approaches to apply to the study of sensory history and illuminates this important dimension of the experience of gardens past and present, East and West.

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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

D. Fairchild Ruggles is Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0884024229
• ISBN 13: 9780884024224
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 362
• Éditeur: Ruggles D. Fairchild
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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