Paris’s late twentieth-century parks—ambitious, innovative, controversial—illustrate the height of postmodern design and urban planning. Amanda Shoaf Vincent examines five major parks to reveal how they draw upon garden models, the city’s history, and their local context to redefine the relationship between green space and the urban environment.
Nine studies focused on East and South Asia, the Islamic world, and Europe illuminate how early modern courts and societies shaped, and were shaped by, the landscape, including both physical sites, such as gardens, palaces, cities, and hunting parks, and conceptual ones, such as those of frontiers, idealized polities, and the cosmos.
Louis XIV, Charles Le Brun, and the Gardens of Versailles
Thomas F. Hedin
Price: $69.95
ISBN: 9780812253757
Pub Date: July 2022
Format: Hardcover
296 Pages
In his masterful study, Thomas F. Hedin reveals how and why a fountain of the strange legend of Latona was erected in the heart of Versailles in the 1660s, the inaugural decade of Louis XIV’s patronage there. His original argument is that Latona was a double declaration: a glorification of the king and a proud manifesto by artists.
