Garden as an Art

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

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In this book Miller challenges contemporary aesthetic theory to include gardens in an expanded definition of art. She provides a radical critique of three central tenets within current intellectual debate: first, the art historical notion that art should only be studied within the context of a single culture and period; second, the philosophical belief that art should be conceived as a discrete object unrelated to our survival as persons, as cultural communities, as a species; and third, the notion that all signifying systems are like language.

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Utgivningsdatum1993-07-01
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt381 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor233
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9780791413784

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Mara Miller is a philosopher and art historian who writes on gardens and environmental aesthetics, Japanese and East Asian aesthetics and art history, and women and gender issues. She has lectured in China, England, France, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, and New Zealand, and her work has been published in Polish, Chinese, and Finnish. Also an artist, she has exhibited in Philadelphia and New York City, and her work is in collections throughout the United States.

IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPart I: What Is a Garden?1. Definitions, Examples, and Paradigms2. The General Unifying Principles Underlying the Construction and Appreciation of Gardens3. Additional Aspects of SpatialityPart II: The Garden as a Work of Art4. Gardens and Current Theories of Art5. Preference for Distance and Disinterest6. Environmental Aesthetics and the Effects of Art7. The Signifying Garden: Gardens as ArtPart III: The Garden as Great Art8. Great Art: Significant Human Content: Theoretical Issues9. Ideas in Art and Language10. The Signifying Garden: Gardens and Language11. Gardens as Great Art: The Presentation of Artistic Ideas12. ConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex to GardensName IndexSubject Index

"This is an excellent piece of work, well-organized, and convincingly argued. Miller is extremely well informed both about gardens and about aesthetics (an unusual combination). The book integrates fascinating examples into a thorough, closely reasoned discussion of the theoretical issues that gardens raise." — Arnold Berleant, Long Island University"Miller's is an extremely broad and competent treatment of gardens, East and West. Her grasp of Japanese culture is rare for any Western treatment, philosophical or otherwise, of gardens." — Edmund Leites, Queens College of the City University of New York