Book ID: CBB454737636

Follies in America: A History of Garden and Park Architecture (2021)

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Kerry Dean Carso (Author)


Cornell University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 216
Language: English

Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as follies, from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies--such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins--brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness. Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations.

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Authors & Contributors
Irene Cheng
Kryder-Reid, Elizabeth
Wen Shuang Zhu
Xun Liu
Antoine Traisnel
Jadviga M. da Costa Nunes
Concepts
Visual representation; visual communication
Parks
Symbolism; symbolic representation
Gardens
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Nationalism
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
21st century
Modern
Choson dynasty (Korea, 1392-1910)
Places
United States
Detroit (Michigan)
Melbourne (Victoria, Australia)
Michigan (U.S.)
Mississippi River (North America)
Sweden
Institutions
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) (Study group: U.S.)
United States. Patent Office
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