Radical gardening : politics, idealism and rebellion in the garden /
McKay, George, 1960-
Radical gardening : politics, idealism and rebellion in the garden / George McKay. - Frances Lincoln Ltd, 2011. - 224 p. : 21 cm.
Introduction: The "plot" of Radical gardening -- The garden in the (city) machine -- Organics, left and right -- Peace in the garden -- Flower power and the gardens of liberation -- Allotments, community gardens, and guerrilla gardening!
George McKay’s Radical Gardening includes a section on ‘Gardens of Liberation,’ in which he describes gardening as “one of the cultural spaces in which it was acceptable or possible for lesbians (or ‘sapphists,’ in the eighteenth century term) and homosexual men to express both solidarity and the self.” Notable examples of ‘queer gardens’ and gardeners he mentions are 18th century artist and gardener Mary Delany (whose intricate botanical papercuts have experienced a 21st century rediscovery), painter and plantsman Cedric Morris and his partner Arthur Lett Haines, filmmaker and gardener Derek Jarman, and more recently artist Paul Harfleet’s The Pansy Project (a blend of conceptual art, guerrilla gardening, and resistance to hatred and violence). To learn more about the Pansy Project, see: https://thepansyproject.com/about/ [annotation by Rebecca Alexander]
0711230307 9780711230309
Gardening--History.
Counterculture.
Organic gardening.
Urban gardening.
Guerrilla gardens.
Gardening--Philosophy.
Gardening--Political aspects.
Gardening--Social aspects.
Radical gardening : politics, idealism and rebellion in the garden / George McKay. - Frances Lincoln Ltd, 2011. - 224 p. : 21 cm.
Introduction: The "plot" of Radical gardening -- The garden in the (city) machine -- Organics, left and right -- Peace in the garden -- Flower power and the gardens of liberation -- Allotments, community gardens, and guerrilla gardening!
George McKay’s Radical Gardening includes a section on ‘Gardens of Liberation,’ in which he describes gardening as “one of the cultural spaces in which it was acceptable or possible for lesbians (or ‘sapphists,’ in the eighteenth century term) and homosexual men to express both solidarity and the self.” Notable examples of ‘queer gardens’ and gardeners he mentions are 18th century artist and gardener Mary Delany (whose intricate botanical papercuts have experienced a 21st century rediscovery), painter and plantsman Cedric Morris and his partner Arthur Lett Haines, filmmaker and gardener Derek Jarman, and more recently artist Paul Harfleet’s The Pansy Project (a blend of conceptual art, guerrilla gardening, and resistance to hatred and violence). To learn more about the Pansy Project, see: https://thepansyproject.com/about/ [annotation by Rebecca Alexander]
0711230307 9780711230309
Gardening--History.
Counterculture.
Organic gardening.
Urban gardening.
Guerrilla gardens.
Gardening--Philosophy.
Gardening--Political aspects.
Gardening--Social aspects.