@article{df3833b2-a446-48f1-b6da-7578fa8c49ba,
author = {Mateusz Salwa},
title = {Gardens – Monuments of the Anthropocene},
journal = {Arts & Cultural Studies Review},
volume = {2022},
number = {Issue 2 (52) Bio-aktywne rumowisko historii cz. I},
year = {2022},
issn = {1895-975X},
pages = {253-272},keywords = {monument; paradise; Anthropocene; art; garden},
abstract = {The aim of the article is to analyse the metaphor of the garden as a metaphor which allows one to give an account of the conditions of the Earth subject to human actions and –more importantly –to sketch a utopian project of going beyond the Anthropocene. A new understanding of the garden modifies the traditional view of it as a paradise, where a harmony between humans and nature reigns. Today, gardens are often approached as places of cooperation, negotiation as well as of tensions and conflicts among human beings and other-than-human beings, that is as places where numerous relationships create a human and other-than-human community. The analyses will start with an interpretation of Alan Sonfist’s Time Landscape (1978–), a public park in Manhattan that was conceived of as a reconstruction of the local precolonial landscape and at the same time as its monument. Sonfist’s work is a good illustration of how the metaphor of the garden is nowadays interpreted and –I contend –it may be also seen as a monument of the Anthropocene.},
doi = {10.4467/20843860PK.22.018.16315},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/przeglad-kulturoznawczy/article/ogrody-pomniki-antropocenu}
}