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The author states that garden history has established two unavoidable trajectories. The first is the investigation of the design and formal evolution of individual sites; this involves land holdings, patronage, available design skills and above all a focus upon formal moves, usually drawn first on paper and then transferred onto the ground. Art and architectural historians found this approach congenial...
The author presents a resume of his approach to the history of gardens. He fully described his in the book ‘Jardins. Paysagistes, jardiniers, poetes' (1998). He finds such interpretative perspectives as structuralism or psychoanalysis to be too ahistorical and too general to cope with the phenomenon of the garden while those which aim at discovering sources of artistic inspiration seem to him to be...
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