HUMA 1625 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Labyrinths
13 Oct 2014
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Cultivating fantasy: the nature of gardens, labyrinths and the local . Longing for a time past when things were better, a homesickness. A way to deny the present and keep some things in the past. Bow to the significance of histories we are too lazy to learn. (lippard 85) And may well have never experienced it firsthand (ex: ideal family from 50"s few people actually had this) The / represents the notion of [and] [or] [both] or [all], not an opposite. 2 main types: deliberately cultivated gardens (managed by humans it is still nature, but not as natural introducing things (plants, ponds) that weren"t naturally there, autonomous gardens (natural untouched ) Garden of eden dominant fantasy of the west seen as the ideal garden nostalgia plays a big role here because this is a time that none of us have experienced few details of the garden, so it is open to our imagination.
