Landscape and Historry : Garden art History

Duration

36h Th

Number of credits

Lecturer

Nathalie De Harlez De Deulin

Language(s) of instruction

French language

Organisation and examination

Teaching in the first semester, review in January

Units courses prerequisite and corequisite

Prerequisite or corequisite units are presented within each program

Learning unit contents

Overview of the history of gardens from the aniquity to the present day, with particular focus upon the periods, the places and/or the personalities associated with the birth of a style or a way of composition, in particular:
- the Roman antiquity : the imperial urban villa - the villa rustica ;
- the Middle Age  :the enclosed garden - the "jardin d'Amour courtois" ;
- the Renaissance : the antique and mannerist garden in Italy - the renaissance garden in France and in the Low countries ;
- the baroque era : the French garden in France and its developements through Europe;
- the 18th century: the picturesque and the Naturalistic English garden and their developments in Europe;
- the 19th century: the landscape garden and the emergence of public urban parks ; the mixted garden ;
- the 20th century: the modernist garden, the Arts and Crafts, the city gardens,  the Post-War era with new concerns in ecology and social matters ; international contemporary trends.
Development of a series of related themes, in particular:
- the symbolic system of the garden planning ; - the relationship between architecture and gardens; - methods of transmitting knowledge (horticultural and botanical techniques, etc.) through herbariums, literary texts and techniques, treaties, iconographic representations (drawings, engravings, paintings, etc.) ; - bringing to the fore contributors (practitioners, theorists, partners and owners,  etc.) ; - the garden as a vehicle for schools of thoughts and philosophical trends.

Learning outcomes of the learning unit

By the end of the course, students should have mastered: - specific, typological and technical vocabulary (see: glossary); - historical data enabling them to position a garden in its stylistic, historical and sociological context; - knowledge of styles and their constitutive elements through theoretical works and treaties of contemporary composition as well as their transmission according to eras, countries and/or regions; - taking into consideration major creators (supporting examples); - bibliographical and iconographical sources in relation to major trends in composition and/or those creating them.

Prerequisite knowledge and skills

None

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Illustrated theory course (slides and Powerpoint presentations).
Individual work or in groups : lectures of the gardener litterature / analysis of historic garden.
Visits of historic parks and garden. 

Mode of delivery (face-to-face ; distance-learning)

Lectures and visits on sites.

Recommended or required readings

Syllabus, course notes and Power point presentations.
Sources and references see selective and critical bibliography (annexed to the syllabus).
Essential reading - collection of foundation texts: BARIDON M., Les jardins. paysagistes - jardiniers - poètes, Paris, R. Laffont, 1998 (Bouquins) - Dictionaries: CHATENET M. & MOSSER M. (dir.), Jardin. Vocabulaire typologique et technique, Paris, éd. du Patrimoine, 2000 (Principles of scientific analysis). - THEBAUD Ph. & CAMUS A., Dicovert. Dictionnaire des jardins et paysages, Ris-Orangis, Ed. Arcature, 1993. - History of gardens: BARIDON M., Le jardin paysager anglais au dix-huitième siècle, Dijon, éd. universitaires, 2000 (coll. U. 21). - MOSSER M. & TEYSSOT G. (dir.), Histoire des jardins de la Renaissance à nos jours, Paris, Flammarion, 1991. - VERCELLONI M. &  V., L'invention du jardin occidental, Rouergue, éd. du Rouergue, 2009 (translated from Italian). - Approche pratique : MITCHELL A., Arbres de France et d'Europe occidentale, Paris, Arthaud, 1982.
Recommended reading - History of gardens: - SAUDAN M. & SAUDAN-SKIRA, De folies en folies : la découverte du monde des jardins, Paris, La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1987. - BRUNON H. & MOSSER M., Le jardin contemporain. Renouveau, expériences et enjeux, Paris, éd. Scala, 2006 (Selected paintings). - CORTESI I., Parcs publics. Paysages 1985-2000, Arles, Actes Sud, 2000 (translated from Italian). - WILSON A., Paysagistes. Ceux qui ont marqué le siècle, Octopus France / Hachette Livre, 2003 (translated from English). - DE HARLEZ DE DEULIN N., Parcs et jardins historiques de Wallonie, IPW, 2008 (Patrimoine de Wallonie). - CORAJOUD M., Le paysage c'est l'endroit où la terre et le ciel se touchent, Paris, Actes Sud/ENSP, 2010.

Assessment methods and criteria

Lectures of texts of Garden lirtterature 
Analysis of historic gardens Oral examination or written test (depending on the number of students).
Criteria : see learning outcomes
A global note (final proof + exercices or lectures) of 10/20 is required for the academic success.
The exercises are not improvable between two sessions.

Work placement(s)

Organizational remarks

Contacts

Nathalie de Harlez de Deulin ndeharlezdedeulin@ulg.ac.be

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