10. Gardens, Music, and Time
- Dan O'Brien PhD Research Fellow Associate Lecturer
Published Online: 13 AUG 2010
DOI: 10.1002/9781444324563.ch10
Copyright © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Book Title
Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone
Additional Information
How to Cite
Barwell, I. and Powell, J. (2010) Gardens, Music, and Time, in Gardening - Philosophy for Everyone (ed D. O'Brien), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444324563.ch10
Editor Information
Oxford Brookes University, UK
Publication History
- Published Online: 13 AUG 2010
- Published Print: 24 SEP 2010
Book Series:
Book Series Editors:
- Fritz Allhoff
Series Editor Information
Western Michigan University, USA
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781444330212
Online ISBN: 9781444324563
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- gardens, music and time;
- eighteenth-century philosopher, Immanuel Kant - the father of modern aesthetics;
- In Critique of Judgement, taxonomy of fine arts (beaux arts) - arts of speech, formative arts and “the art of the beautiful play of sensations”;
- formative arts, into plastic art, sculpture and architecture - and “painting proper” and “landscape gardening”;
- belief that gardens - were works of visual art like painting, since Kant's time;
- gardens, ideally not static - constantly developing, since they were first created;
- change and the arts – performances, as sequences of events;
- change in all living organisms - showing richness and complexity of the experiences of time;
- gardens of all types - living and changing with time, no matter how subtly;
- music, and passage of musical time – gardens, making passage of time visible
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Change and the Arts
Time and the Arts
Time and Change in Gardens
Music Makes the Passage of Time Audible
Gardens Make the Passage of Time Visible
Notes