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Analysing The Boundaries Of The Ancient Roman Garden Dr Victoria Austen
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Analysing The Boundaries Of The Ancient Roman Garden
Dr Victoria Austen
This book demonstrates how the Romans constructed garden boundaries specifically in order to open up or undermine the division between a number of categoric oppositions, such as inside/outside, sacred/profane, art/nature, and real/imagined. Victoria Austen illustrates that what is significant is not so much the boundary itself, but, rather, the delight in playing with concepts of boundedness and separation. Using case studies from across literature and material and visual culture, she explores the perception of individual garden sites in response to their limits.
Transculturally, the garden is understood as a marked-off and cultivated space. Distinct from their surroundings, gardens are material and symbolic spaces that constitute both universal and culturally specific ways of accommodating the natural world and expressing human attitudes and values. Although we define these spaces explicitly through the notions of separation and division, in many cases we are unable to make sense of the most basic distinction between 'garden' and 'not-garden'. In response to this ambiguity, Austen interrogates the notion of the 'boundary' as an essential characteristic of the Roman garden.
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240 pages, 30 bw illus
| Media | Books Book |
| Released | March 9, 2023 |
| ISBN13 | 9781350265189 |
| Publishers | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Pages | 224 |
| Dimensions | 164 × 240 × 19 mm · 489 g |
