Desert de Retz A Late Eighteenth-Century French Folly Garden; The Artful Landscape of Monsieur de Monville

Name: Desert de Retz A Late Eighteenth-Century French Folly Garden; The Artful Landscape of Monsieur de Monville
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ISBN: 9780262111867

ISBN-10: 0262111861

ISBN-13: 9780262111867

Edition: 1994 (Revised)

Authors: Diana Ketcham

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The Deacute;sert de Retz, the supreme surviving example of the folly garden, is one of the most amply and beautifully documented of France's historic gardens. Since 1990, when the Arion Press published the first book on this garden outside of Paris, the Deacute;sert de Retz has been transformed by an ongoing restoration. That limited, fine-press edition is long out of print and much sought after. This new edition reproduces in a smaller oblong format the material in the original book. Diana Ketcham's text has been expanded and updated to reflect recent scholarship and physical changes to the site. There are also new photographs that show the restored landscape and the complete restoration…

Book details

List price: $50.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 6/17/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 138
Size: 9.50" wide x 11.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.936



Acknowledgments


Le Desert de Retz


Illustrations


The Construction of the Desert de Retz, 1774-1789



Models from Antiquity and Analogs in Contemporary Gardens



The Desert in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries



The Restoration of the Desert de Retz, 1972-1993



Plates from Le Rouge, Jardins anglo-chinois, 1785


Afterword



Notes


Bibliography


Index