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Gardens and imagination: framing nature in art
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"A plot of land, a relaxing retreat, a formal landscape, a place of work: gardens carry a range of associations for individuals, communities and cultures alike. Spanning from the ancient Mediterranean to Renaissance Europe to the Edo period in Japan to the Qing dynasty in China to today, Gardens and Imagination considers how gardens have remained a source of artistic inspiration for millennia. Drawn from the holdings of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this lush volume features both iconic representations of gardens as well as undersung depictions across a range of mediums, eras and cultures. Thematically organized, Gardens and Imagination features essays that probe the human impulse to influence, master and celebrate the natural world through cultivation, care and labor--all while exploring how countless artists have translated this phenomenon into their own visual aesthetics."--www.artbook.com
Contents
Director's foreword / Pierre Terjanian -- Gardens and people -- Gardens as art -- Gardens through time -- Gardeners -- Artists and gardens -- Taking the garden with you -- Garden as stage -- Gardens real and imagined -- Further reading -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Photography credits.
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Boston, Massachusetts: MFA Publications, [2026]
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- 0878469095
- 9780878469093
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- "Published in conjunction with the exhibition 'Framing Nature: Gardens and Imagination,' organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, March 15-June 28, 2026"--Colophon.
- Artists include: Ansel Adams, Jean-Eugène Auguste Atget, Gustave Baumann, Ruth Bernhard, William Blake, Karl Blossfeldt, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Harlan W. Butt, Lilla Cabot Perry, Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Lois Conner, Jan Cornelisz, Johann August Corvinua, Elizabeth Courtis, Nancy Crasco, Gregory Crewdson, Imogen Cunningham, Gohar Dashti, John Henry Dearle, Étienne Delaune, Maria Richards Oakey Dewing, Jim Dine, Christian Dior, Daniela Edburg, Claudio Eshun, Erastus Salisbury Field, John Fladgate, Henry Fletcher, Gisèle Freund, Wanda Gág, Agostino Gallo, Jay Lynn Gomez, Anthony Green, Maison Gripoix, Pieter van der Heyden, David Hilliard, Yoshida Hiroshi, Utagawa Hiroshige I, Katsushika Hokusai, Godefroi Holtzman, William James Hubard, Graciela Iturbide, Charles Jones, Robert John Thornton, Justin Kimball, Salomon Kleiner, Emmanuel de La Villéon, Lemercier, Georges Lepape, Tom Loeser, Dakota Mace, Kimathi Mafafo, Maeda Masao, Mary Mattingly, Michael Mazur, Asnaku Melese, Jean-François Millet, Tyler Mitchell, Claude Monet, Mary Nimmo Moran, May Morris, William Morris, Vik Muniz, Edouard Muller, Barbara P. Norfleet, Giovanni di Paolo, Willem van de Passe, Hilary Pecis, Flo Perkins, Paul Poiret, Andrew Raftery, Jacques Rigaud, Milton Rogovin, Yves Saint Laurent, John Singer Sargent, Judith Schaechter, Marjorie Schick, Elizabeth Talford Scott, Joyce J. Scott, Sèvres Manufactory, Kurmata Shiro, Maria Auxiliadora da Silva, Joseph Constantine Stadler, Johann Matthias Steidlin, Josef Sudek, Linda Threadgill, Ross Sterling Turner, Edouard Vuillard, Barbara Westman, and Yuan Yao.
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