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HUMN573  - A Cultural History of Gardens

Note: Course is not currently scheduled. Please contact your Student Advisor if you have any questions

Human engagement with nature has a very rich and complex history, and gardening (or landscaping) is the only art that at once links us to our natural surroundings and to our human past. Nature and culture meet and coexist in spaces created through landscaping, and this course wishes to explore the rich heritage of this complex relationship through exploration of gardens, art history and written (often literary) accounts. Special focus is given to the interrelations of gardening and visual arts, and how this relationship is interpreted through theoretical accounts. The course will focus on two great gardening traditions, that of the British Isles and that of Japan, and will develop an understanding of the background, history and aesthetics of landscape art in an interdisciplinary setting.