Reviews for On Other Grounds: Landscape Gardening and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century England and France

The average rating for On Other Grounds: Landscape Gardening and Nationalism in Eighteenth-Century England and France based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-07-23 00:00:00 John Meza In which twentieth-century theory--Derrida, Deleuze & Guattari, Horkheimer & Adorno--meets eighteenth-century French and English gardens. Weltman-Aron shows how writers of the time reveal nationalistic attitudes toward gardening, considerably complicating the identification of French gardens with symmetry and geometry and English ones with more "natural" curves. The final chapter discusses how a designer in the 1990s, Gilles Clement, has continued this history of landscape gardening with less nationalistic emphasis, so that the book is not only about the eighteenth century.

Review # 2 was written on 2019-02-24 00:00:00 Michael Tazelaar I love listening to Christine Walkden talk on the radio or seeing her on the television; she's warm, funny, down-to-earth and very knowledgeable but this diary is not for me. A lot of rather leaden writing, with just the occasional gem of information that I didn't know. I will give her gardening books a try though.