Main entry:

Dale, Peter (Teacher), author.

Title & Author:

The green fuse : essays in making sense of gardens / Peter Dale.

Publication:

London : Reaktion Books, 2025.
©2025

Description:

316 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Mazes and labyrinths -- Gardens and time -- The garden as theatre -- Interlude: Ilnacullin, County Cork, Ireland -- The green chapel -- Interlude: St. Mary's Churchyard, Mundon, Essex -- The green study -- Interlude: Green thoughts -- Garden follies -- Interlude: Some favourite follies -- The garden of England -- Gardens and painting -- Interlude: Essex and Suffolk, Giverny and Arles -- Gardens and music -- Walls, hedges and fencing with ourselves -- Interlude: Two gardens enclosed -- The garden party -- Peter and Pan.

Summary:

"Dig deep into our powerful connection with gardens across media and realms of human experience--from music to philosophy, painting to religion. Why do interiors of houses mimic nature--the wallpapers and curtains, flowers in vases, a vaporizer in the bathroom? Why do we so often connect our childhoods with gardens? Why has the myth of a lost Eden been so ubiquitous and so formative? The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens explores our deep-rooted impulses to create gardens, examining them through the lenses of history, religion, nostalgia, and myth. It connects gardens with the other arts--painting, music, literature, and theater--and contemplates their intellectual and philosophical significance. Blending lyrical reflections with research, The Green Fuse offers an unusually wide-ranging and thoughtful perspective on gardens and why we make them."--Publisher.

ISBN:

1836390289
9781836390282

Subject:

Gardens.
Jardins.
gardens (open spaces)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 320918
Call No.: 320918
Copy: 1
Status: Available