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Analysing the Boundaries of the Ancient Roman Garden - (Re)Framing the Hortus (Hardcover)
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Analysing the Boundaries of the Ancient Roman Garden - (Re)Framing the Hortus (Hardcover)
Series: Ancient Environments
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This book demonstrates how the Romans constructed garden boundaries
specifically in order to open up or undermine the division between
a number of oppositions, such as inside/outside, sacred/profane,
art/nature, and real/imagined. Using case studies from across
literature and material and visual culture, Victoria Austen
explores the perception of individual garden sites in response to
their limits, and showcases how the Romans delighted in playing
with concepts of boundedness and separation. Transculturally, the
garden is understood as a marked-off and cultivated space. Distinct
from their surroundings, gardens are material and symbolic spaces
that constitute both universal and culturally specific ways of
accommodating the natural world and expressing human attitudes and
values. Although we define these spaces explicitly through the
notions of separation and division, in many cases we are unable to
make sense of the most basic distinction between 'garden' and
'not-garden'. In response to this ambiguity, Austen interrogates
the notion of the 'boundary' as an essential characteristic of the
Roman garden.
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