Thinking the sculpture garden : art, plant, landscape / edited by Penny Florence.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Florence, Penny, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sculpture gardens.

Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens (England).

England--Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens.

Physical Description:

xi, 219 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

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.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I Tremenheere sculpture garden

1. Tremenheere: Place of the long stones / Penny Florence

2. The seed in the stone: Peter Randall-Page's exploration of energetic structure / Penny Florence

3. Mono-ha: Paying attention: Japanese art in/of the garden / Gay Watson

pt. 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: The neo-classical re-arming of the sculpture garden / Patrick Eyres

8. How to make a path: The Swiss Way project, 1991 / Georges Descombes

pt. III Return to Tremenheere

9. Landscape, art, plant, event / Penny Florence

10. Conclusion: The art of the plant; the art of the earth (far other worlds) / Penny Florence.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Thinking the sculpture garden

ISBN:

9780367190231

0367190230

9780367190248

0367190249

OCLC:

1122197599