What Gardens Mean

List of Illustrations
Preface
ONE: GARDENS AND ART, GARDENS AS ART
1. Garden Variety
2. Definition
3. Art
4. Garden Riddles
TWO: SOME EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BACKGROUND
1. The French Formal Garden
2. The Grand Tour
3. Academies and Theory
4. Gardens
THREE: THE SISTER ARTS I
Gardens and Poetry
1. The Sister Arts
2. Gardens, Poems, and Emblems
3. Pope's Twickenham
4. Stowe
5. Stourhead
6. West Wycombe
7. Intention
8. Multiple Interpretation
9. Style
FOUR: THE SISTER ARTS II
Gardens and Painting
1. Introduction
2. Imitation and Allusion
3. Representation
4. Gardens Again
FIVE: THE PICTURESQUE
1. Introduction
2. The Picturesque
3. Price and Knight
4. Sir Uvedale Price
5. Richard Payne Knight
6. Transfer of Technique
7. Conclusion
SIX: THE BEHOLDER'S SHARE
1. Introduction
2. Sense
3. Imagination
4. Understanding
SEVEN: GARDENS AND THE DEATH OF ART
1. Introduction
2. The Death of Art
3. The Mimetic Model
4. The Hegelian Model
5. Difficulties with the Hegelian Model
6. Garden's Fate
7. Earthworks and Environmental Art
8. Tracing a Lineage
Notes
Bibliography
Index