John Beardsley

Memory Palace

James Castle

Director of Garden and Landscape Studies John Beardsley

This invaluable volume now includes the most recent efforts by artists often in collaboration with architects and city planners to transform ravaged landscapes and desolate cityscapes into pleasure-giving parks and artworks. The book begins with an enlightening introduction tracing the historical roots of art in the landscape: Stonehenge, Indian mounds, cliff dwellings, park design from 18th-century England to modern-day golf courses. The opening chapter deals with such innovative artists as Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Walter De Maria, and Christo, who in the 1960s began to free their art from the confines of tradition by constructing monumental sculptures in the environment. The following chapters discuss their predecessors, peers, and successors, including Constantin Brancusi, Herbert Bayer, Richard Long, James Turrell, and many others. The final four chapters (chapter 7 is entirely new) explore at length the increasing involvement of artists in land reclamation and urban design, featuring projects by Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt, Mel Chin, Maya Lin, and many others.

Contemporary Art in the Landscape

Earthworks and Beyond

Examines the life and work of Picasso, discussing how and why his art looks the way it does and how it relates to the artist.

Pablo Picasso

First Impressions

Richard Andrews

Henry Art Gallery

Maya Ying Lin

Henry art gallery. University of Washington (Seattle, Wash.).

One of the most celebrated artists working in the US, Maya Lin came to prominence in 1981 with her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The book traces her continued fascination with geologic phenomena and topography, integrating natural contours and materials into evocative landscape sculptures.

Systematic Landscapes

Maya Lin

Sonja Dümpelmann

Modernity was critically important to the formation and evolution of landscape architecture, yet its histories in the discipline are still being written. This book looks closely at the work and influences of some of the least studied figures of the era: established and less well-known female landscape architects who pursued modernist ideals in their designs. The women discussed in this volume belong to the pioneering first two generations of professional landscape architects and were outstanding in the field. They not only developed notable practices but some also became leaders in landscape architectural education as the first professors in the discipline, or prolific lecturers and authors. As early professionals who navigated the world of a male-dominated intellectual and menial work force they were exponents of modernity. In addition, many personalities discussed in this volume were either figures of transition between tradition and modernism (like Silvia Crowe, Maria Teresa Parpagliolo), or they fully embraced and furthered the modernist agenda (like Rosa Kliass, Cornelia Oberlander). The chapters offer new perspectives and contribute to the development of a more balanced and integrated landscape architectural historiography of the twentieth century. Contributions come from practitioners and academics who discuss women based in USA, Canada, Brazil, New Zealand, South Africa, the former USSR, Sweden, Britain, Germany, Austria, France and Italy. Ideal reading for those studying landscape history, women’s studies and cultural geography.

Women, Modernity, and Landscape Architecture

Janice Ross

Randy Gragg

Lawrence Halprin, the influential landscape architect of the post WWII generation, and his creation of the striking plazas of the Portland Open Space Sequence.

Lawrence and Anna Halprin and the Reinvention of Public Space

Where the Revolution Began

Collectif

John R. Clarke

William C. Agee

Peter Plagens

Matthew Baigell

Dore Ashton

Irving Sandler

Jacinto Quirarte

Leslie King-Hammond

SBC Communications. (ancien Southwestern Bell) (Dallas TX).

SBC Communications

Betsy Fahlman

Susan C. Larsen

Presents the corporate art collection of SBC Communications discussing each piece's reflection of a cultural, intellectual, or economic theme.

The SBC Collection of Twentieth-century American Art

American Images

David Campany

Edgar Martins

Text by John Beardsley. Interview by David Campany.

Topologies

With incisive intelligence and beguiling prose, John Beardsley tells the story of some twenty-five "visionary environments" and the fiercely independent individuals who created them. Beardsley also situates the work in the larger contexts of traditional garden design, religious architecture, environmental sculpture, and folk art. The thought-provoking text combines with dazzling views of the far-flung gardens to make this an inspiring volume.

Environments by Visionary Artists

Gardens of Revelation

Jane Livingston

William Arnett

Paul Arnett

Since the 19th century, the women of Gee's Bend in southern Alabama have created stunning, vibrant quilts. Beautifully illustrated with 350 color illustrations, 30 black-and-white illustrations, and charts, Gee's Bend to Rehoboth is being�released in conjunction with a national exhibition tour including The Museum of Fine Art, Houston, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

The Women and Their Quilts

Gee's Bend

Briefly traces the history of the Storm King Art Center, describes the sculpture on display, and includes brief profiles of the featured artists

Storm King Art Center

A Landscape for Modern Sculpture

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Alvia J. Wardlaw

Relates the lives of the women of Gee's Bend, Alabama, who for more than 150 years have made quilts reflecting their history and daily lives. Having worked in isolation for generations and continuing to inhabit the remote plantation land their parents once slaved, they have received unexpected attention from the artistic world.

The Quilts of Gee's Bend

John Beardsley

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