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The Tuileries
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A Map of Shadows
Poetry. A MAP OF SHADOWS is an ambitious, enthusiastic sequence of lyrics and meditations that is unique yet has affinities with works as distinguished--and as 'difficult, ' because of far-flung sources and innovative arrangements--as Ezra Pound's Cantos and David Jones's Anathemata. Its polymath author is devoted to the visual arts, and one might think of his own product as a kind of Kuntskammer of historical anecdotes and contemporary aperçus, arcane quotations and esoteric lists (18th century Chinese painters' brushstrokes, magical herbs, sacred stones), recipes and white spells and inkhorn terms, ingenious machinery devised by such out-of-the-way designers as Giacomo Torelli and Salomon de Caus.... Everywhere informed by a sensibility strongly inclined to synaestheia, this volume speaks to the collector of curiosities and the connoisseurs of chaos latent in the postmodern soul.--Stephen Yenser
The Tuileries Gardens, Yesterday and Today
Created in the 16th century for Catherine de Medici's new Tuileries Palace, landscaped in the 17th century by André Le Notre, and renovated in the 20th century by Louis Benech and Pascal Cribier, the Tuileries Gardens remain a popular place to walk in the heart of Paris. Its groves, flower beds and bassins invite visitors to contemplate and daydream. As an extension of the Musée du Louvre, it is a veritable open-air museum, which presents masterpieces such as "The Kiss" by Rodin and Penone's "The Tree of Vowels". This guidebook is designed to accompany readers during their visit of the Tuilieries Gardens, by taking them on a journey through the centuries in one of the most beautiful gardens in France.
Manet's Modernism
"Fried put forward a highly original, beholder-centered account of the evolution of a central tradition in French painting from Chardin to Courbet."--P. [4] of cover.
Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City
Constructing Gardens, Cultivating the City is the first cultural history of major new parks developed in Paris in the late twentieth century, as part of the city's program of adaptive reuse of industrial spaces. Thanks to laws that gave the city more political autonomy, Paris's local government launched a campaign of park creation in the late 1970s that continued to the turn of the millennium. The parks in this book represent this campaign and illustrate different facets of their cultural and historical context. Archival research, interviews, and analyses of the parks reveal how postmodern debates about urban planning, the historic city, public space, and nature's presence in an urban settin...
