# Garden and Metaphor: Essays on the Essence of the Garden - Hardcover

by **Ana Kučan** (Editor), **Mateja Kurir** (Editor)

  

Never before had the garden to fulfil so many demands as  
it does today. It is a refuge from digitalised life and acts as a bridge  
to nature. As a man-made place where plants grow, it is cultivated and  
untamable at the same time. While for centuries the gardener's ambition  
was to control and subjugate nature, today it serves more as a place for  
retreat, a possible surrogate for wilderness, a habitat for animals or  
it fulfils the dream of self-sufficiency.

In this book,  
landscape architects, sociologists, architects, artists, philosophers  
and historians illuminate different aspects of the garden in the  
Anthropocene in six chapters: the garden as a place of community, garden  
as art, garden as a place of enchantment and rapture, opening up  
questions of what garden as a model could stand for.

  

-   The importance of the garden for our present and in the future

-   Internationally renowned authors

-   A beautifully designed, attractive volume with photography by Anne Schwalbe

### Author Biography

Dr. Ana Kucan, Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Ljubljana

Dr Mateja Kurir, Philosopher, Researcher, Editor, Ljubljana

**Number of Pages:** 320

**Dimensions:** 1.18 x 9.61 x 7.01 IN

**Publication Date:** December 31, 2023

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- **Price:** 49.99 USD
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