The Garden as an ArtIn 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. |
Contents
Definitions Examples and Paradigms | 3 |
The General Unifying Principles Underlying the Construction and Appreciation of Gardens | 25 |
Additional Aspects of Spatiality | 53 |
The Garden as a Work of Art | 67 |
Gardens and Current Theories of Art | 69 |
The Preference for Distance and Disinterest | 93 |
Environmental Aesthetics and the Effects of Art | 107 |
The Signifying Garden Gardens as Art | 121 |
Ideas in Art and Language | 147 |
The Signifying Garden Gardens and Language | 153 |
The Garden as Great Art The Presentation of Artistic Ideas | 171 |
Conclusions Gardens and the Theory of Art | 177 |
Notes | 181 |
Bibliography | 201 |
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The Garden as Great Art | 133 |
Great Art Significant Human Content Theoretical Issues | 135 |
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