Garden at Monceau

Uittreksel

Originally published in 1779, 'Garden at Monceau' is a richly illustrated presentation of the garden Louis Carrogis, known as Carmontelle, designed on the eve of the French Revolution for Louis-Philippe-Joseph d'Orléans, duc de Chartres. With its array of architectural follies intended to surprise and amaze the visitor, the garden was a setting for ancien régime social life. Carmontelle's portrayal of his work in 'Garden at Monceau' therefore serves as an expression of a key moment in the history of European landscape design, garden architecture, and social history. This facsimile edition, with its English-language text and reproductions of the original engravings, is accompanied by essays that interpret the landscape design and examine Carmontelle's larger career as a painter and theater producer.

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Preface / Elizabeth Barlow Rogers and Peter Crane -- Introduction / Joseph Disponzio -- Translator's foreword / Andrew Ayers -- Prospectus for the Garden at Monceau / Carmontelle -- Garden at Monceau / Carmontelle -- Carmontelle and his world / Laurence Chatel de Brancion -- Essays -- History by design : the aesthetics of transformation in Carmontelle's Jardin de Monceau / David L. Hays -- Fashion follies at the folie de Chartres / Caroline Weber -- Carmontelle's portraits of musicians / Florence Gétreau -- "The habit of seeing the same things often" : planting the picturesque in eighteenth-century France / Elizabeth Hyde -- Monceau, the Mémoires secrets, and the Colisée : the reinvention of the duc de Chartres à l'anglois / Gabriel Wick -- A spade in the garden or a garden in spades : Louis Carrogis de Carmontelle's Jardin de Monceau or the garden as dramatic proverb / Joseph Disponzio -- En-jeux : viewing, mapping, and playing in Carmontelle's prospectus and Jardin de Monceau / Susan Taylor-Leduc -- Notes.