Sacred Gardens And Landscapes
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Sacred Gardens and Landscapes
Author | : Michel Conan |
Publisher | : Dumbarton Oaks |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780884023050 |
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Studies of rituals in sacred gardens and landscapes offer tantalizing insights into the significance of gardens and landscapes in the societies of India, ancient Greece, Pre-Columbian Mexico, medieval Japan, post-Renaissance Europe, and America. Sacred gardens and landscapes engaged their visitors into three specific modes of agency: as anterooms spurring encounters with the netherworld; as journeys through mystical lands; and as a means of establishing a sense of locality, metaphorically rooting the dweller's own identity in a well-defined part of the material world. Each section of this book is devoted to one of these forms of agency. Together the essays reveal a profound cultural significance of gardens previously overlooked by studies of garden styles.
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