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The other Kabul : remains of the garden
Kabul was once famous for being a city of blossoming gardens. Today our perception of the Afghan capital is dominated by images of suffering and destruction. Considering Kabul's gardens as part of its cultural heritage, Afghan and non-Afghan artists reflect on a different Kabul, without ignoring the crises of the past and present. The garden is a recurring theme in the works shown. It is a living space, an oasis, a space for community dialogue; it relates to a greater cultural context and a collective history. Essays on the gardens of Kabul, on the garden as a symbol of generosity and friendship, as well as a personal narrative about a garden near Tehran complement this forward-looking presentation. \"The Other Kabul\" is a future place that could exist anywhere in the world and is thus accessible to anyone.
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Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice
From celebrated gardens in private villas to the paintings and sculptures that adorned palace interiors, Venetians in the sixteenth century conceived of their marine city as dotted with actual and imaginary green spaces. This volume examines how and why this pastoral vision of Venice developed.
Drawing on a variety of primary sources ranging from visual art to literary texts, performances, and urban plans, Jodi Cranston shows how Venetians lived the pastoral in urban Venice. She describes how they created green spaces and enacted pastoral situations through poetic conversations and theatrical performances in lagoon gardens; discusses the island utopias found, invented, and mapped in distant seas; and explores the visual art that facilitated the experience of inhabiting verdant landscapes. Though the greening of Venice was relatively short lived, Cranston shows how the phenomenon had a lasting impact on how other cities, including Paris and London, developed their self-images and how later writers and artists understood and adapted the pastoral mode.
Incorporating approaches from eco-criticism and anthropology, Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice greatly informs our understanding of the origins and development of the pastoral in art history and literature as well as the culture of sixteenth-century Venice. It will appeal to scholars and enthusiasts of sixteenth-century history and culture, the history of urban landscapes, and Italian art.
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The artist's garden : the secret spaces that inspired great art
\"The Artist's Garden features over 20 gardens that have been secret retreat, muse, home and studio to our greatest painters. In their lifetimes, their gardens supplied the inspiration for creative works while today they illuminate their professional motivation and private lives from Paul Cezanne's house in the south of France to Frederick Childe Hassam at Celia Thaxter's garden off the coast of Maine, USA.\" -- back cover.
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Immersed
Focuses on the process of creating ‘Immersed’, her final exhibition for her MFA degree, Dunedin School of Art Gallery, Mar 2022. Explains that her exhibition reflects her ‘lived engagement with her suburban garden’ over an 18-month span. Comments on her desire to make artwork exploring how people relate to the environment. Relates how her MFA project changed over time when the COVID-19 pandemic forced her to leave her job as a seasonal ranger at Mount Aspiring National Park and return home to Dunedin. Talks about the connections between gardening and art, noting that she used a ‘variety of drawing methods such as botanical drawing, field studies, classification, and mapping’ in developing ‘Immersed’. Describes how she took the 150 works she created and arranged them for the exhibition. Remarks that the exhibition is a metaphor for the processes of gardening gardening and art, both of which are ‘ongoing and never finished processes, with multiple possible stories and outcomes’. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice
From celebrated gardens in private villas to the paintings and
sculptures that adorned palace interiors, Venetians in the
sixteenth century conceived of their marine city as dotted with
actual and imaginary green spaces. This volume examines how and why
this pastoral vision of Venice developed.
Drawing on a variety of primary sources ranging from visual art
to literary texts, performances, and urban plans, Jodi Cranston
shows how Venetians lived the pastoral in urban Venice. She
describes how they created green spaces and enacted pastoral
situations through poetic conversations and theatrical performances
in lagoon gardens; discusses the island utopias found, invented,
and mapped in distant seas; and explores the visual art that
facilitated the experience of inhabiting verdant landscapes. Though
the greening of Venice was relatively short lived, Cranston shows
how the phenomenon had a lasting impact on how other cities,
including Paris and London, developed their self-images and how
later writers and artists understood and adapted the pastoral
mode.
Incorporating approaches from eco-criticism and anthropology,
Green Worlds of Renaissance Venice greatly informs our
understanding of the origins and development of the pastoral in art
history and literature as well as the culture of sixteenth-century
Venice. It will appeal to scholars and enthusiasts of
sixteenth-century history and culture, the history of urban
landscapes, and Italian art.
eBook
Gardens of style : private hideaways of the design world
\"Mother Nature has always been a grand muse, particularly in the world of fashion and design. Many fashion designers, from Christian Dior to Carolyne Roehm, have drawn on gardens and their beguiling botanicals to inspire and inform their collections. These designers and their interior design counterparts, such as Celerie Kemble, Bunny Williams, and Jeffrey Bilhuber, also like to retreat to their own elegant salon verts to restore their creativity. This photographed book shows where these tastemakers find much of their inspiration within the serene horticultural havens of their homes. From the lush foliage of the Dominican Republic to the graceful flowerbeds of America's East Coast, the charming roses and clipped boxwood of England's country manors, and the patterned parterres of France's enchanting Provence region, Gardens of Style illustrates the symbiotic relationship between horticulture and haute couture, and between nature's beautiful forms and those found in interior design. For instance, the garden of former Hermes designer Nicole de Vesian is a sublime weave of patterns and textures, while the garden of Christian Dior features many of the roses that inspired his glamorous gowns\"--Book jacket flap.
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Painting with Ōtepoti Dunedin : Artist in Residence at the Dunedin School of Art 2021
Presents a report by the 2021 Artist in Residence at the Dunedin School of Art in which she reflects on some of her experiences of exploring various parts of Ōtepoti Dunedin, engaging with its arts community and how these encounters influenced her painting practice. Informs that she lived on-site and worked in a studio alongside the art students during the two-month residency. Talks about attending a retrospective exhibition by the late artist Joanna Margaret Paul at the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and visiting the Hōtere Garden Oputae in Port Chalmers and viewing sculptures by the late Ralph Hōtere, as well as viewing the works of other local artists. Explains that the COVID-19 lockdown happened two weeks into her residency, which led her to visit Dunedin Botanic Garden daily and notes how this repetition manifested itself in her work when painting from consolidated memories. Comments on her experimentation to introduce coloured ink into her paintings. Reflects on painting in Ōtepoti Dunedin in the context of new materialist theory, where she worked ‘in collaboration’ with the land. Source: National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa, licensed by the Department of Internal Affairs for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 New Zealand Licence.
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Painting paradise : the art of the garden
Gardens are where man and nature meet. They change by the hour, day-to-day, and with the seasons. They carry associations about the status, approach to life, and sometimes even the political affiliations of the creator. Gardens can be intended for public enjoyment or private delectation; they can be open to the masses or closed to all but a few. They may be places of scientific study; havens for the solitary thinker; spaces for frolicking and games, for flirtation and for love. Presented with the many faces of the garden, artists in Western Europe have looked at the garden in different ways, extracting and emphasising those facets of the garden unique to their culture and their time. At the same time individual elements drawn from the garden - whether architectural or botanic - have at certain periods come to the fore and taken their place in the decorative arts of Western Europe. This book explores the way in which the garden has inspired artists and craftsmen in Europe between 1500-1900. Exhibition: Royal Collection, London, UK (2015).
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Why Look at Plants?
Why Look at Plants? proposes a thought-provoking look into the emerging cultural politics of plant-presence in contemporary art through the original contributions of artists, scholars, and curators who have creatively engaged with the ultimate otherness of plants in their work.
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