Some thoughts towards a critical language for gardens
The first of three articles by Peter Osbourne.
“The immediate problem is that the question of what is a garden, especially a good or great garden, has become embroiled in the discussion about different types of garden…”
James Golden on Allusion in Gardens
‘I find much to agree with in the ‘trialogue’ on Allusion in Gardens by Noel Kingsbury, Yue Zhuang, and Anne Wareham, but I’m disturbed by heavy emphasis, particularly Noel Kingsbury’s, on the need to find new languages (garden languages) to speak to the present. Of course, we do need to do this, but not to the exclusion of rich allusory experience…….’
Anne Beswick responds to Sara Maitland on beauty and gardens
Anne Beswick responds to Sara Maitland’s comments on Anne Warehams article on beauty and gardens.
Sara Maitland on “The love that dare not speak its name”
Sara Maitland comments on Anne Wareham’s article on beauty and gardens.
Anne Beswick on “The love that dare not speak its name”
Anne Beswick comments on Anne Wareham’s article on beauty and gardens.
Reflections on Garden Discourse
by Darryl Moore.
The relation between gardens and art.
“But it is also important that the idea of art should be questioned, as it is neither a simple nor a universally understood concept or practice.”
Andrew Lawson on “The love that dare not speak its name”
Andrew Lawson comments on Anne Wareham’s article on beauty and gardens.
Ian Kitson on “The love that dare not speak its name”
Ian Kitson comments on Anne Wareham’s article on beauty and gardens.
Noel Kingsbury on “The love that dare not speak its name”
Noel Kingsbury comments on “The love that dare not speak its name” by Anne Wareham
Bridget Rosewell on “The love that dare not speak its name”
Bridget Rosewell comments on Anne Wareham’s article on beauty and gardens.
Amanda Patton on “Yes, Gardens can be works of art”
“Anne Wareham states that conceptual references “only evoke a feeling response if they draw on images and ideas which are already part of the psyche”. I would agree, but I also think that the best of our contemporary creativity draws heavily on our long tradition of the Arts without us necessarily being aware of it,…”
Leigh Hunt on “Yes, Gardens can be works of art”
“I certainly feel that we have lost the familiarity of looking for meanings in landscape and for understanding the language of ornament, and this hampers us from moving forward.”
Anne Wareham on “Yes, Gardens can be works of art”
“Indeed, I do invite intellectual engagment and I would love that discussion to begin. So far it hasn’t – and perhaps that might once been for lack of a place to have such discussion. But now we have thinkingardens, where uninhibited debate and discussion can and does happen.”
Andrew Wilson on “Yes, Gardens can be works of art”
“As an assessor and judge for RHS show gardens for the last 12 years, I found myself perplexed by Germain Greer’s response to this year’s Chelsea Flower….”
The love that dare not speak its name
by Anne Wareham.
On Beauty and Gardens –
“….So often when I visit a garden I am confronted with the horrifically ugly, and that seems to me to make a mockery of our materials, which are the best the world can offer.”
