The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens

The Green Fuse: Essays in Making Sense of Gardens

Peter Dale
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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 theatre – and contemplates their intellectual and philosophical significance. Blending lyrical reflections with research, it offers an unusually wide-ranging and thoughtful perspective on gardens and why we make them.

     

    Author: Peter Dale 

    Publisher: Reaktion Books

    Format: Hardback

    Pages: 320

    ISBN: 9781836390282

    Publication Date: May 2025