Garden at War
Garden at War Stowe isn't a garden of flowers or shrubs; it's a garden of ideas. At Stowe, 250 acres of parkland offer a complex web of views, pathways, statues, inscriptions, urns and ideas. This…
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Garden at War
Stowe isn't a garden of flowers or shrubs; it's a garden of ideas. At Stowe, 250 acres of parkland offer a complex web of views, pathways, statues, inscriptions, urns and ideas. This important new collection of essays and artwork brings together ideas from some of the leading thinkers on landscape design, exploring the gardens at Stowe as a site of conflict between order and disorder.
There is natural beauty in the gardens of Stowe, but they serve a larger purpose than to please the eye. Unlike its French floricultural precursors, Stowe presents sudden shifts of scene, abrupt revelations, as well as spots at which to stop to absorb the visual effect. Beneath this facade of bucolic idyll lies a deeply important suggestion of man's relationship to nature.
Accompanying an exhibition of historic and contemporary art at Stowe House, The Garden at War explores the gardens at Stowe, built by a
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