Topic Four: Reading #1: Green Dreams (Eccentric Spaces [Chapter 1], by Robert Harbison)

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WARP Topic Four: Landscape--Representation, Intervention and Body-as-Site; Reading Response (Green Dreams, from Eccentric Spaces)
Topic Four: Landscape--Representation, Intervention and Body-as-Site
Reading #1: Green Dreams (Eccentric Spaces [Chapter 1], by Robert Harbison
 
Marie Antoinette's 'hameau', or, The Queen's Hamlet (model farm, Palace of Versailles, France)
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Ha-ha (recessed wall)
 Don't let them run away but don't let me see them and don't let them block my view!
 
 
Parco del Mostri (garden, Italy)
Garden of Monsters


 

Roman Forum (ruins, Italy)
 
Boboli Garden (garden, Italy)

 
Jardin du Luxembourg (garden, France)
 
Tivoli Garden (Villa d'Este, Rome, Italy)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Created/Coined by the English artist and writer William Gilpin - "that kind of beauty which is agreeable in a picture."
An ideal type of landscape that has a sense of wildness meshed with beauty?
 

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