Sound and Scent in the Garden (Hardcover)

D. Fairchild Ruggles

ISBN 10: 0884024229 / ISBN 13: 9780884024224

Published by Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, Washington DC, 2017

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Hardcover. While we often approach gardens as things to be seen-thus engaging the rational, intellectual part of the human brain-Sound and Scent in the Garden explores the more elusive experiences of sound and smell. These senses are important dimensions of garden design and performance and often have a powerful effect on the human body, yet they may also be ephemeral and difficult to study.The contributors to the volume explore the sensory experience of gardens specifically as places where people encounter landscape in a staged manner, as a result of intentional design. How do the senses shape the experience of those places? In what ways are plants, gardens, and landscapes produced so as to stimulate the senses? What evidence do we have of historical sensory experiences? What is lost when we forget to acknowledge the sensory environment of the past or simply overlook its traces?The volume demonstrates a wide variety of approaches to apply to the study of sensory history and illuminates this important dimension of the experience of gardens-past and present, East and West. Sound and Scent in the Garden explores the experiences of sound and smell as dimensions of garden design. The contributors explore the sensory experience of gardens as places and demonstrate a wide variety of approaches to apply to the study of sensory history. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Sound and Scent in the Garden (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, Washington DC
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0884024229
• ISBN 13: 9780884024224
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

While we often approach gardens as things to be seen―thus engaging the rational, intellectual part of the human brain―Sound and Scent in the Garden explores the more elusive experiences of sound and smell. These senses are important dimensions of garden design and performance and often have a powerful effect on the human body, yet they may also be ephemeral and difficult to study.

The contributors to the volume explore the sensory experience of gardens specifically as places where people encounter landscape in a staged manner, as a result of intentional design. How do the senses shape the experience of those places? In what ways are plants, gardens, and landscapes produced so as to stimulate the senses? What evidence do we have of historical sensory experiences? What is lost when we forget to acknowledge the sensory environment of the past or simply overlook its traces?

The volume demonstrates a wide variety of approaches to apply to the study of sensory history and illuminates this important dimension of the experience of gardens―past and present, East and West.

About the Author

D. Fairchild Ruggles is Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.