Representing the Good Neighbor
Representing the Good Neighbor

Author: Carol A. Hess

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2013-06

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 0199919992

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In this book, Carol A. Hess investigates the reception of Latin American art music in the US during the Pan American movement of the 1930s and 40s. Hess uncovers how and why attitudes towards Latin American music shifted so dramatically during the middle of the twentieth century, and what this tells us about the ways in which the history of American music has been written.

Fountains, Statues, and Flowers
Fountains, Statues, and Flowers

Author: Elisabeth B. MacDougall

Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 9780884022169

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Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.

Signatures in Stone
Signatures in Stone

Author: Linda Lappin

Publisher: PBS Publications

Published: 2018-03-21

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1545722315

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The search for the soul of place is one of my passions as traveler, writer, and writing teacher. My work is often inspired by places: islands, ruins, old houses and buildings, and the atmospheres found there. For several years, I have been researching the "genius loci," the spirit or soul of place. The Romans and the Etruscans believed that every place--every mountain, field, body of water--had an indwelling spirit or soul, which was beneficial or harmful to human activity. And every house and household was believed to have a tutelary spirit. The soul of place was a force which shaped the character and atmosphere of a place and at the same time, an entity with which human beings were constantly interacting and communicating. This idea has stimulated me for a long time, and it has greatly influenced my writing.

Dante's Garden
Dante's Garden

Author: Teresa Cutler-Broyles

Publisher:

Published: 2017-08-22

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13: 9781522015505

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Dante's Garden is the story of what happens when Frank Farnese, a book collector from 2017, falls through Hell's Mouth, a strange sculpture in Bomarzo, Italy. In 1570, Lucrezia Romano and famed antiquarian Pyrrho Ligorio welcome him when he awakens in a garden, from what he thinks is a dream but isn't. Together they must figure out how to put the world right again. The Inquisition, an extraordinary visit to Venice, and the dreams of Duke Francesco Orsini entwine to pull them all deeper into adventure, danger, love, and the hardest decisions of their lives. Dante's Garden weaves fact and fiction, history and imagination, to tell the story of Frank and Lucrezia, and the connection that, finally, may not be strong enough to hold them safe as time splits apart.

The Monster in the Garden
The Monster in the Garden

Author: Luke Morgan

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 0812247558

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In The Monster in the Garden, Luke Morgan develops a new conceptual model of Renaissance landscape design, arguing that the monster was a key figure in Renaissance culture and that the incorporation of the monstrous into gardens was not incidental but an essential feature.