Dancing with Time

The Garden as Art

By:

John Powell

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between the Arts

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Gardens provoke thought and engagement in ways that are often overlooked. This book shines new light on long-held assumptions about gardens and proposes novel ways in which we might reconsider them. The author challenges traditional views of how we experience gardens, how we might think of gardens as works of art, and how the everyday materials of gardens – plants, light, water, earth – may become artful. The author provides a detailed analysis of Tupare, a garden in New Zealand, and uses it as source material for his analysis of the philosophical issues art gardens raise. His new account of gardens highlights the polymodal, multi-sensual, and improvisatory character of the garden experience, it offers an ontological comparison between gardens and humans and other animals, and it explains how identical plants, and arrangements of plants, may be mundane when encountered beyond the garden but artful, meaningful, and aesthetically valuable when experienced within it.

Author Biography:

John Powell lives in New Plymouth, New Zealand and is a Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Architecture and the Built Environment at the University of Adelaide in South Australia.

Release date NZ

February 14th, 2019

Author

John Powell

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

New edition

Illustrations

19 Illustrations, unspecified

Pages

204

Series

Cultural Interactions: Studies in the Relationship Between the Arts

ISBN-13

9781789971415

Product ID

29146891

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