Radical gardening : politics, idealism and rebellion in the garden / George McKay.
Material type: TextPublication details: Frances Lincoln Ltd, 2011.Description: 224 p. : 21 cmISBN:- 0711230307
- 9780711230309
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Lending Books | Elisabeth C. Miller Library Tall Shelves | SB468 .M35 2011 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 39352800078958 |
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]