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Title Thinking the sculpture garden : art, plant, landscape / edited by Penny Florence
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 219 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
Contents Acknowledgements Contents i.​ Note on Method: Diffracting The Sculpture Garden ii. Introduction. The Ground Part I Tremenheere Sculpture Garden Tremenheere: Place of the Long Stones. Art, Plants, Landscape​; Penny Florence The Seed in the Stone: Peter Randall-Page's Exploration of Energetic Structure. ; Penny Florence Mono-ha: Paying Attention. Japanese Art in/of the Garden ; Gay Watson Part II Placing History in/of the Garden 4. Sculpture Gardens and Sculpture in Gardens; John Dixon Hunt 5. The Garden: Art Object; Bernard Lassus 6. From Pedestal to Place; David Leatherbarrow 7.Little Sparta and the Neo-Classical Re-Arming of the Sculpture Garden. Patrick Eyres 8. How to Make a Path. The Swiss Way Project 1991; Georges Descombes Part III ​ ​Return to Tremenheere 9. ​Landscape, Art, Plant, Event; Penny Florence ​ 10. ​Thinking the Sculpture Garden; Penny Florence Appendix. Tremenheere Lists and Map. Author Biographies
Summary "This innovative book poses two, deceptively simple, questions: what is a sculpture garden, and what happens when you give equal weight to the main elements of landscape, planting and artwork? Its wide-ranging frame of reference, including the USA, Europe and Japan, is brought into focus through Tremenheere Sculpture Garden, Cornwall, with which the book begins and ends. Effectively less than 15 years old, and largely the work of one man, Tremenheere affords an opportunity to examine as work-in-progress the creation of a new kind of sculpture garden. Beginning with a historical overview, the book traverses multiple ways of seeing and experiencing sculpture gardens, culminating in an exploration of their relevance as 'cultural ecology' in the context of globalisation, urbanisation and climate change. The thinking is non-dualist and broadly aligned with New Materialisms and Material Feminisms to explore our place as humans in the non-human world on which we depend. Eminent contributors, including John Dixon Hunt, George Descombes, Bernard Lassus and David Leatherbarrow, approach the issues through practices and theories of landscape architecture; garden and art making, history and writing; and philosophy. Richly illustrated with over 100 images, including a colour plate section, the book will primarily appeal to those engaged in professional or academic research, along with sculpture garden visitors, who will find new and surprising ways of experiencing plants and art in natural and urban settings"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 06, 2020)
Subject Sculpture gardens.
sculpture gardens.
ARCHITECTURE -- Landscape.
Sculpture gardens.
SUBJECT Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens (England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2019102920
Subject England -- Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens.
Form Electronic book
Author Florence, Penny, editor.
LC no. 2019044825
ISBN 9780429199882
0429199880
9780429576225
0429576226
9780429578335
0429578334
9780429574115
0429574118