Feast your eyes : the unexpected beauty of vegetable gardens
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Feast your eyes : the unexpected beauty of vegetable gardens
University of California Press in association with Smithsonian Institutution Traveling Exhibition Service, c2002
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-135)
内容説明・目次
内容説明
In recent years, vegetable gardening has made a comeback as a popular pastime in America. Yet, gardeners are creating vegetable gardens with a difference; they are intended to be pleasing to the eye as well as a source for fresh produce. In an effort to beautify traditional vegetable gardens, landscape architects and amateur gardeners are finding inspiration in the elaborate European vegetable gardens of the seventeenth century. "Feast Your Eyes" examines the historical antecedents of this modern movement as well as the changing perceptions of the beauty of vegetable gardens over time and among different cultures. Generously illustrated with over one hundred historical and contemporary photographs and artwork highlighting material from the Smithsonian Institution's 'Archives of American Gardens', this book provides a fascinating and wide-ranging discussion of such topics as the vegetable garden at Versailles, Ming dynasty vegetable gardens, the war gardens of World War I, World War II victory gardens - including those of the Japanese American internees - and vegetable still lifes.
As the boundary between vegetable garden and flower garden has become blurred, the same is true for vegetables. Horticulturists have developed popular garden ornamentals from kale, chilli peppers, sweet potato, and eggplant. Pennington provides 'biographies' of these vegetables and describes new varieties that are being developed for their aesthetic qualities. She shows how this is not a uniquely modern phenomenon but is rooted in the introduction of exotic vegetables to Europe starting as early as the thirteenth century. This work is published in association with Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service.
目次
Introduction Chapter One: Of Cabbages and Kings: Quintinie and the Baroque Vegetable Garden Chapter Two: Ming Gardens of the Soul Chapter Three: Banishing the Vegetable Garden from the Landscape Chapter Four: A Vegetable Garden Conundrum: The Chimneys Chapter Five: The Vegetable Still Life Chapter Six: Vegetable Garden Victorious Chapter Seven: The Glorious Vegetable Garden Chapter Eight: Feast or Fancy: The Ornamental Vegetable Index
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