Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Part I: What Is a Garden?
1. Definitions, Examples, and Paradigms
2. The General Unifying Principles Underlying the Construction and Appreciation of Gardens
3. Additional Aspects of Spatiality
Part II: The Garden as a Work of Art
4. Gardens and Current Theories of Art
5. Preference for Distance and Disinterest
6. Environmental Aesthetics and the Effects of Art
7. The Signifying Garden: Gardens as Art
Part III: The Garden as Great Art
8. Great Art: Significant Human Content: Theoretical Issues
9. Ideas in Art and Language
10. The Signifying Garden: Gardens and Language
11. Gardens as Great Art: The Presentation of Artistic Ideas
12. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index to Gardens
Name Index
Subject Index