More like History of Gardening:
I was disappointed. It was more a history of gardens than anything else. They described historic gardens in cursory detail. Yes, it's a pretty book but most of the photos are in black & white because these gardens are the real thing (i.e. from the turn of the century), the color photos are of artwork. If you're looking for inspiration or how-to's, bypass this one.
A disappointing work:
I waited and waited to afford to buy this book. It's on its way back to Amazon. What a disappointment..short superficial chapters and useless pictures. I suspect you'll see this book on remainder tables everywhere ...very soon.
Seeing the garden through an artist's eyes:
I'd borrowed this book from the library and I had to go out and buy it! If you are a painter and love the era of early American Impressionism, you'll love this book because it shows you the paintings and it shows you the actual gardens that inspired them. I see gardens as potential painting subjects - especially the "cottage gardens" or "grandmother's gardens" - that were so inspiring to the artists of the late 1800s. If you don't paint, you probably won't get the point of this book.
Wonderful book!:
I am stunned to see some bad reviews for this book! I came across it accidentally at the library and intend to buy it soon. It is certainly not a "garden book" in the sense of what to plant where. What it is is an extraordinary history of grandmothers' gardens and accompanying art, culture, and values. I love cottage gardening, history, the Arts and Crafts movement, Gertrude Jekyll, etc. and this book is about many of these things. I've also learned through it of many interesting books and writers and plan to research them. Highly recommended. Well written too.
Disappointing:
I was really disappointed in this book - it's more of an art history book than a gardening book, and it's a history of some fairly insignificant art at that (with some exceptions). I found the text to just be a list of artwork. It was extremely uninformative. Even the illustrations weren't all that attractive, since so many were in black and white.
| Author: | May Brawley Hill | | Binding: | Hardcover | | Dewey Decimal Number: | 712.097309034 | | EAN: | 9780810933897 | | ISBN: | 0810933896 | | Number Of Pages: | 240 | | Publication Date: | 1995-09-30 |
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