ABSTRACT
Chapter 7 explores the enduring landscape color design oeuvre of Martha Schwartz. For Schwartz color was a device to transform, surprise, and dramatize places. She also used color to confront and spark conversation about established cultural and disciplinary concepts, particularly nature versus artifice. She shocked the profession with her 1980 Bagel Garden, which sparked a much-needed debate about landscapes and gardens. Schwartz has used bright, synthetic color and light and bold, luminous graphics to produce landscapes of glowing color effects. I link her work to Pop Art and popular culture and an economy built on giant corporate brands, as in the stark black, white, red, and green geometric courtyard and grid of golden frogs in a shallow pool facing a giant globe in Rio Shopping Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
