The Garden as an Art

<p>In this book Miller challenges contemporary aesthetic theory to include gardens in an expanded definition of art. She provides a radical critique of three central tenets within current intellectual debate: first the art historical notion that art should only be studied within the context of a single culture and period; second the philosophical belief that art should be conceived as a discrete object unrelated to our survival as persons as cultural communities as a species; and third the notion that all signifying systems are like language.</p>