Man, a wide garden: Milan Kundera as a young Stalinist

This article analyses early Stalinist poetry, written by writer Milan Kundera, published in his collection Clovek, zahrada sira (Man, A Wide Garden) in 1953

Radical gardening: politics, idealism & rebellion in the garden

'War is the natural occupation of man … war-and gardening.' Winston Churchill to Siegfried Sassoon, 1918 In the common public perception, contemporary gardening is understood as suburban, as leisure activity, as television makeover opportunity. Its origins are seen as religious or spiritual (Garden of Eden), military (the clipped lawn, the ha-ha and defensive ditches), aristocratic or monarchical (the stately home, the Royal Horticultural Society). Radical Gardening travels an alternative route, through history and across landscape, linking propagation with propaganda. For everyday garden life is not only patio, barbecue, white picket fence, topiary, herbaceous border.… From window box to veggie box, from political plot to flower power, this book uncovers and celebrates moments, movements, gestures, of a people's approach to gardens and gardening. It weaves together garden history with the counterculture, stories of individual plants with discussion of government policy, the social history of campaign groups with the pleasure and dirt of hands in the earth, as well as media, pop and art references, to offer an informing and inspiring new take on an old subject

Postcard: Cain and Abel, S.P. Dinsmoor, Lucas, Kansas

This black and white photographic postcard features an attraction in Lucas, Kansas. This postcard reflects one of the sculptures in the Garden of Eden. Titled Cain & Abel , two sculptures are standing side by side in a tree above the Garden of Eden sign . The sculpture on the left is a man with farming tools and the sculpture on the right is a man with a livestock animal. Dinsmoor\u27s house is in the background. There is handwriting in the bottom of the card.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/tj_postcards/1226/thumbnail.jp

Postcard: Cain & Abel, S.P. Dinsmoor. Lucas, Kansas

This black and white photographic postcard features an attraction in Lucas, Kansas. This postcard reflects one of the sculptures in the Garden of Eden. Titled Cain & Abel , two sculptures are standing side by side in a tree above the Garden of Eden sign . The sculpture on the left is a man with farming tools and the sculpture on the right is a man with a livestock animal. A sculpture of a woman on a swing is below the man on the left and a sculpture of a woman reaching up to the men is on the right. A limestone building is in the background. There is handwriting in the bottom of the card.https://scholars.fhsu.edu/tj_postcards/1238/thumbnail.jp

Love scenes and garden plots: form and femininity in Elizabeth von Arnim’s Elizabeth and her German garden (1898)

This essay reads Elizabeth von Arnim’s Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898) in relation to Alfred Austin’s garden book, The Garden that I Love (1894). The Garden that I Love presents the garden as a retreat modelled on the Horatian ideal, in which a man retires from public life to enjoy a peaceful rural existence. Von Arnim shows how the garden, or rather the good of retreat that the garden represents, is well-nigh inaccessible to a female subject. At the same time, she wants to claim the garden’s seclusion for the female subject. Ultimately von Arnim takes the idea of feminine retreat to an unexpected extreme, generating, in certain passages of her text, a perverse garden fantasia that celebrates feminine autoeroticism and sexual self-sufficiency. Notably, it is specific aspects of the form of the garden book that allow von Arnim to develop her ambivalently feminist, unabashedly utopian vision of feminine withdrawal and retreat

The Design Principles and Creativity Touch in Japanese Gardens

Japanese gardens have much variety of forms; however their identity can be recognized by viewer as Japanese when they see it. All designers of Japanese garden have to follow design principles of garden making which guide their sense creativity into sense of Japanese spirit. This article will focus on variety of forms of famous Japanese gardens and how their designer develops their creativity in shaping natural landscape into man-madeenvironment

The Sacred Garden Versus the City of Man

The desire to unravel the myths of origin is expressed in humankind\u27s ceaseless effort to attain parity with the sacred garden by displacing it with the city of man. The determination to end our exile and be readmitted to Eden is played out in the envisioning of structures designed to give expression to nostalgic dreams of heaven.