Sacred landscape: Signs of religion in the eighteenth-century garden

• Autores: Michael Charlesworth
• Localización: Studies in the history of gardens and designed landscape, ISSN 1460-1176, Vol. 13, Nº 1-2, 1993, págs. 56-68
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We have been discovering for some time how damaging narratives of garden history based on notions of "style" can be, yet our understanding of the problem seems to have little effect on our practice. At a recent symposium in California entitled "The Modern Garden and its contexts" for example, during the plenary session the question was posed from the audience, "What is the modern garden?", and it could not be answered. I believe that it could not be answered because it was the wrong question. The questioner expected to be able to link very many-no doubt hundreds - of diverse gardens through some notion of overall spatial organization, and it is simply not possible. Yet the questioner had derived this expectation from garden history. She prefaced her question with the phrases, "we know what the French garden was, we know what the Italian garden was"