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  1. A philosophy of gardens
    Published: 2006
    Publisher:  Clarendon, Oxford

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0191516139; 9780191516139; 9780199290345
    RVK Categories: CC 1100
    Subjects: Jardinage / Philosophie; ARCHITECTURE / Landscape; GARDENING / Garden Design; GARDENING / Landscape; Tuinen; Ethiek; Gardening / Philosophy; Ethik; Philosophie; Gardening; Garten; Gartenkunst; Gartenarbeit; Philosophie; Ästhetik
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 173 p.)
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [162]-167) and index

    Why do gardens matter so much and mean so much to people? That is the intriguing question to which David Cooper seeks an answer in this book. Given the enthusiasm for gardens in human civilization ancient and modern, Eastern and Western, it is surprising that the question has been so long neglected by modern philosophy. Now at last there is a philosophy of gardens. David Cooper identifies garden appreciation as a special human phenomenon distinct from both from the appreciation of. art and the appreciation of nature. He discusses the contribution of gardening and other garden-related pursuits

  2. Gardens
    an essay on the human condition
    Published: ©2008
    Publisher:  University of Chicago Press, Chicago

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0226317862; 0226317897; 9780226317861; 9780226317892
    Subjects: Gardens; ARCHITECTURE / Landscape; GARDENING / Garden Design; GARDENING / Landscape; Gardens; Geschichte; Gardens; Garten; Gartenkunst; Geistesgeschichte; Ästhetik
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 248 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-237) and index

    The vocation of care -- Eve -- The human gardener -- Homeless gardens -- "Mon jardin à moi" -- Academos -- The garden school of Epicurus -- Boccaccio's garden stories -- Monastic, republican, and princely gardens -- A note on Versailles -- On the lost art of seeing -- Sympathetic miracles -- The paradise divide: Islam and Christianity -- Men not destroyers -- The paradox of the age -- Epilogue -- Appendixes. From The Decameron, Giovanni Boccaccio -- From Mr. Palomar, Italo Calvino -- "The garden," Andrew Marvell -- A note on Islamic carpet gardens

  3. Labyrinths & mazes
    a journey through art, architecture, and landscape
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  Princeton Architectural Press, New York

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    Contributor: Danford, Natalie (ÜbersetzerIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781616895129
    RVK Categories: ZH 9640
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Labyrinths in art; Symbolism in architecture; Maze gardens; Labyrinths in art; Symbolism in architecture; Maze gardens; Labyrinths in art; Maze gardens; Symbolism in architecture; ARCHITECTURE / Landscape; ART / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes; GARDENING / Landscape
    Scope: 216 Seiten, 17 x 25 cm
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    "Published simultaneously in Italy by 22publishing srl with the title Labirinti: un percorso attraverso l'arte, l'architettura e il paesaggio."

  4. Persian Gardens and Pavilions
    Reflections in History, Poetry and the Arts
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  I.B. Tauris, London

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 0857733206; 9780857733207
    Subjects: Garden structures / Iran / History; Garden structures; Gardens / Iran / History; Gardens; Palaces / Iran / History; Palaces; Pavilions / Iran / History; ARCHITECTURE / Landscape; GARDENING / Garden Design; GARDENING / Landscape; Architecture in art; Gardens in art; Gardens, Persian; Pavilions; Geschichte; Gardens, Persian; Pavilions; Gardens in art; Architecture in art; Garten <Motiv>; Buchmalerei; Pavillon; Garten; Kunst
    Scope: 1 online resource (518 pages)
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    About the Author; Title Page; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Praise for the Book; 1 Introduction; 2 The Garden and Pavilion in Near Eastern Pre-Islamic Texts, the Qur'an and Persian Poetry; 3 The Garden and Pavilion in Persian Art; 4 The Garden and Pavilion through the Lens of Travellers and Historians; Matrix; Plates; Glossary of Terms; Poets, Historians and Travellers; Notes; Bibliography; 5 Conclusion

    From Timur's tent in Samarqand to Shah 'Abbas's palace in Isfahan and Humayun's tomb in Delhi, the pavilion has been an integral part of Persianate gardens since the Achaemenid garden in Pasargadae in the sixth century BC. Here, Mohammad Gharipour places both the garden and the pavilion within their historical, literary and artistic contexts, emphasizing the importance of the pavilion, so overlooked in the study of Iranian historical architecture. He does so by examining the representations of gardens and pavilions in religious texts (such as the Zoroastrian Aban Yasht or the Qur'an), the poet

  5. Innovations in landscape architecture
    Contributor: Anderson, Jonathon R. (Publisher); Ortega, Daniel H. (Publisher)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, London ; New York

    Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Bibliothek
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    Contributor: Anderson, Jonathon R. (Publisher); Ortega, Daniel H. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    ISBN: 9781138860674; 9781138860681
    Edition: First published
    Subjects: ARCHITECTURE / Landscape; GARDENING / Garden Design; GARDENING / Landscape; Landscape architecture; Digitaltechnik; Ästhetik; Landschaftsarchitektur
    Scope: xxi, 272 pages, Illustrationen, Karten, Pläne, 25 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

  6. Innovations in landscape architecture
    Contributor: Anderson, Jonathon R. (Publisher); Ortega, Daniel H. (Publisher)
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  Routledge, London

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    Contributor: Anderson, Jonathon R. (Publisher); Ortega, Daniel H. (Publisher)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781138860674; 9781138860681; 9781315716336
    Subjects: ARCHITECTURE / Landscape; GARDENING / Garden Design; GARDENING / Landscape; Landscape architecture
    Scope: xxi, 272 Seiten, Illustrationen, Pläne, 25 cm
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    Enthält Literaturangaben

  7. Labyrinths & mazes
    a journey through art, architecture, and landscape
    Published: [2016]; © 2016
    Publisher:  Princeton Architectural Press, New York

    Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Kunstbibliothek
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    Fachhochschule Erfurt, Hochschulbibliothek
    ZH 9630 T216
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    HafenCity Universität Hamburg, Bibliothek
    ZH 9640 020
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    Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB) / Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek
    U 16 B 1644
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    Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
    2017 C 174
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    Universität Konstanz, Kommunikations-, Informations-, Medienzentrum (KIM)
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    Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Contributor: Danford, Natalie (ÜbersetzerIn)
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 9781616895129
    RVK Categories: ZH 9640
    Edition: First edition
    Subjects: Labyrinths in art; Symbolism in architecture; Maze gardens; Labyrinths in art; Symbolism in architecture; Maze gardens; Labyrinths in art; Maze gardens; Symbolism in architecture; ARCHITECTURE / Landscape; ART / Subjects & Themes / Landscapes & Seascapes; GARDENING / Landscape
    Scope: 216 Seiten, 17 x 25 cm
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    "Published simultaneously in Italy by 22publishing srl with the title Labirinti: un percorso attraverso l'arte, l'architettura e il paesaggio."