Details

Subject(s)

• Gardens—Washington (D.C.) [Browse]
• Dumbarton Oaks Gardens (Washington, D.C.) [Browse]
• Dumbarton Oaks—History [Browse]

Editor

• Ruggles, D. Fairchild [Browse]

Series

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the history of landscape architecture ; XXXVIII. [More in this series]

Summary note

"While we often approach gardens as things to be seen--thus engaging the rational, intellectual part of the human brain--Sound and Scent in the Garden explores the more elusive experiences of sound and smell. These senses are important dimensions of garden design and performance and often have a powerful effect on the human body, yet they may also be ephemeral and difficult to study. The contributors to the volume explore the sensory experience of gardens specifically as places where people encounter landscape in a staged manner, as a result of intentional design. How do the senses shape the experience of those places? In what ways are plants, gardens, and landscapes produced so as to stimulate the senses? What evidence do we have of historical sensory experiences? What is lost when we forget to acknowledge the sensory environment of the past or simply overlook its traces? The volume demonstrates a wide variety of approaches to apply to the study of sensory history and illuminates this important dimension of the experience of gardens--past and present, East and West."-- Harvard University Press website.

Notes

"Volume based on papers presented at the symposium 'Sound and Scent in the Garden, ' held at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on May 9-10, 2014."

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Part I: Sound and scent in landscape history. Introduction: A world of senses / D. Fairchild Ruggles ; Beyond ekphrasis, beyond sight, beyond words... / John Dixon Hunt ; Acoustic delay : body technique and the Hortus condusus / Elizabeth Fowler ; "Come south wind, blow upon my garden that its spices may flow" : experience in the ancient Jewish garden / Deborah A. Green ; Bottled gardens : capturing scents for health / Alain Touwaide ; A sensorial experience in Yunqin Zhai : from Qin zither music to natural melody in the Chinese garden / Yu Zhang ; Perfuming the heart : a study of a seventeenth-century perfumery treatise from Islamic India / Ali Akbar Husain ; The scent of power flowers, fragrance, and ephemerality in the gardens of Louis XIV / Elizabeth Hyde ; The patriarch and the apothecary : planting gardens and making Holy Miro in seventeenth-century Moscow / Rachel Koroloff ; Sounds and scents of monsoon in the late medieval gardens of Rajasthan / Priyaleen Singh ; Lilac and nightingale : a heritage of scent and sound at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill / Mark Laird ; The expulsion of the senses the idea of the "Italian garden" and the politics of sensory experience / Anatole Tchikine ; "Bearing to your senses sweet sounds and odors" : early impressions of the prairie landscape / Barbara Burlison Mooney
• Part II: Sound in the contemporary garden : a design primer. Sound installations in the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens : an introduction / John Beardsley ; Sound art in gardens : an artist's response to site / Hugh Livingston.

ISBN

• 9780884024224 ((first hardcover ; : alk. paper))
• 0884024229 ((first hardcover ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

2016017756

OCLC

956529533

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