A History of Garden Art
From the Earliest Times to the Present Day

This 1928 highly illustrated two-volume work on garden design is regarded as among the most important surveys of its kind.

Marie Luise Schroeter Gothein (Author), Walter P. Wright (Edited by), Laura Archer-Hind (Translated by)

9781108076159, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 September 2014

510 pages, 313 b/w illus.
21 x 29.5 x 3 cm, 1.33 kg

Marie Luise Gothein (1863–1931) published this scholarly two-volume history of garden design in German in 1913. Its second edition of 1925 was translated into English by Laura Archer-Hind, edited by gardening author Walter P. Wright (1864–1940), and published in 1928. The highly illustrated work is still regarded as among the most thorough and important surveys of its kind. It begins by examining evidence from both archaeology and literature, as well as climate and soil conditions, to discuss the gardens of ancient Egypt and Assyria, and continues to survey developments worldwide until the twentieth century. Individual gardens, technical innovations, and fashions in horticulture are all discussed in detail. Volume 2 considers northern European gardens of the Renaissance, the cultural importance of Louis XIV's France, the impact of the introduction of foreign plants, and gardening in Europe, the Far East and North America up to the early twentieth century.

11. Germany and the Netherlands in the time of the Renaissance
12. The time of Louis XIV
13. The French garden in European countries
14. China and Japan
15. The English landscape garden
16. tendencies of garden art in the nineteenth century
17. Modern English gardening
18. Landscape architecture in North America
Select bibliography
Index to volumes 1 and 2.

Subject Areas: Environmental management [RNF]