Sound and scent in the garden

By:

Ruggles, Fairchild Ed

Publication details: Washington, D. C. Dumbarton Oaks research Library and Collection 2017Description: viii,354,iipISBN:

9780884024224

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

712 RUG

Contents:

CONTENTS Foreword vii Part I. Sound and Scent in Landscape History 1. Introduction: A World of Senses 3 D. Fairchild Ruggles 2. Beyond Ekphrasis, Beyond Sight, Beyond Words 13 John Dixon Hunt 3. Acoustic Delay: Body Technique and the Hortus Conclusus 31 Elizabeth Fowler 4. “Come south wind, blow upon my garden that its spices may flow”: Experience in the Ancient Jewish Garden 53 Deborah A. Green 5. Bottled Gardens: Capturing Scents for Health 77 Alain Touwaide 6. A Sensorial Experience in Yunqin Zhai: From Qin Zither Music to Natural Melody in the Chinese Garden 93 Yu Zhang 7. Perfuming the Heart: A Study of a Seventeenth-Century Perfumery Treatise from Islamic India 107 Ali Akbar Husain 8. The Scent of Power: Flowers, Fragrance, and Ephemerality in the Gardens of Louis XIV 123 Elizabeth Hyde 9. The Patriarchy and the Apothecary: Planting Gardens and Making Holy Miro in Seventeenth-Century Moscow 153 Rachel Koroloff 10. Sounds and Scents of Monsoon in the Late Medieval Gardens of Rajasthan 171 Priyaleen Singh 11. Lilac and Nightingale: A Heritage of Scent and Sound at Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill 193 Mark Laird 12. The Expulsion of the Senses: The Idea of the “Italian Garden” and the Politics of Sensory Experience 217 Anatole Tchikine 13. “Bearing to your senses sweet sounds and odors”: Early Impressions of the Prairie Landscape 255 Barbara Burlison Mooney Part II. Sound in the Contemporary Garden—A Design Primer 14. Sound Installations in the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: An Introduction 301 John Beardsley 15. Sound Art in Gardens: An Artist’s Response to Site 305 Hugh Livingston Contributors 335 Index 341

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CONTENTS
Foreword vii
Part I. Sound and Scent in Landscape History
1. Introduction: A World of Senses 3
D. Fairchild Ruggles
2. Beyond Ekphrasis, Beyond Sight, Beyond Words 13
John Dixon Hunt
3. Acoustic Delay: Body Technique and the Hortus Conclusus 31
Elizabeth Fowler
4. “Come south wind, blow upon my garden that its spices may flow”: Experience in the Ancient Jewish Garden 53
Deborah A. Green
5. Bottled Gardens: Capturing Scents for Health 77
Alain Touwaide
6. A Sensorial Experience in Yunqin Zhai: From Qin Zither Music to Natural Melody in the Chinese Garden 93
Yu Zhang
7. Perfuming the Heart: A Study of a Seventeenth-Century Perfumery Treatise from Islamic India 107
Ali Akbar Husain
8. The Scent of Power: Flowers, Fragrance, and Ephemerality in the Gardens of Louis XIV 123
Elizabeth Hyde
9. The Patriarchy and the Apothecary: Planting Gardens and Making Holy Miro in Seventeenth-Century Moscow 153
Rachel Koroloff
10. Sounds and Scents of Monsoon in the Late Medieval Gardens of Rajasthan 171
Priyaleen Singh
11. Lilac and Nightingale: A Heritage of Scent and Sound at Horace Walpole’s Strawberry Hill 193
Mark Laird
12. The Expulsion of the Senses: The Idea of the “Italian Garden” and the Politics of Sensory Experience 217
Anatole Tchikine
13. “Bearing to your senses sweet sounds and odors”: Early Impressions of the Prairie Landscape 255
Barbara Burlison Mooney
Part II. Sound in the Contemporary Garden—A Design Primer
14. Sound Installations in the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens: An Introduction 301
John Beardsley
15. Sound Art in Gardens: An Artist’s Response to Site 305
Hugh Livingston
Contributors 335
Index 341

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