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Mitchell Beazley (imprint of Octopus Publishing Group), London, Published 2003. Hardcover, 176 pp.; 29 cm; First Edition; illustrated in color throughout.
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In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Gray textured paper over boards, silver lettering on spine, with mild shelf and edge wear. Binding tight. Pages clean and unmarked. Pictorial dust jacket has a few small edge nicks, light creasing along the edges, and mild shelf wear. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover.A survey of how contemporary garden and landscape designers dissolve the boundary between a garden and the land around it, extending, concealing, or "borrowing" the surrounding landscape to link a garden with its wider setting. Paul Cooper, a garden designer and former lecturer in art and design, traces the idea from Renaissance vistas and the eighteenth-century ha-ha to present-day work by designers including Dan Kiley, Oehme and van Sweden, Steve Martino, Julie Toll, Susan Childs, and Fernando Caruncho, taking in trompe l'oeil and mirror effects for small urban plots and land-art gardens conceived as temporary events. Heavily illustrated in color with examples from around the world.Contents: Introduction; The Borrowed Landscape; Deception; Dissolving the Edge; The Garden Trouve; Mimicry; Garden as Event; Index; Acknowledgments.