Gardens and Books.
| N° d'inventaire | 21345 |
| Format | 24.5 x 30 |
| Détails | 464 p., paperback in slipcase. |
| Publication | Geneva, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
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The volume is made up of 9 essays by renowned authors on the garden in books and on the book as a model for gardens and 174 notes commenting on the exhibited objects, written by the best international specialists. Des jardins & des livres aims to illustrate in a scholarly and elegant manner the centuries-old dialogue between the art of gardens and the book. Equipped with a very rich iconographic apparatus (628 images), the volume presents different aspects of the incessant back-and-forth between these two artistic realities, that is to say both garden books or gardening manuals and literary texts at the origin of very real gardens.
The volume is made up of 9 essays by renowned authors on the garden in books and on the book as a model for gardens and 174 notes commenting on the exhibited objects, written by the best international specialists. Des jardins & des livres aims to illustrate in a scholarly and elegant manner the centuries-old dialogue between the art of gardens and the book. Equipped with a very rich iconographic apparatus (628 images), the volume presents different aspects of the incessant back-and-forth between these two artistic realities, that is to say both garden books or gardening manuals and literary texts at the origin of very real gardens.