Sculpture garden

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The Esplanade Ernest-Cormier, a sculpture garden in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, with Melvin Charney's work Colonnes allégoriques.

A sculpture garden or sculpture park is an outdoor garden dedicated to the presentation of sculpture, usually several permanently sited works in durable materials in landscaped surroundings.[1] These installations are related to several similar concepts, most notably land art, where landscapes become the basis of a site-specific sculpture, and topiary gardens, which consists of training live plants into living sculptures.

A sculpture garden may be private, owned by a museum and accessible freely or for a fee, or public and accessible to all. Some cities own large numbers of public sculptures, some of which they may present together in city parks.

Exhibits range from individual, traditional sculptures to large site-specific installations. Sculpture gardens may also vary greatly in size and scope, either featuring the collected works of multiple artists, or the artwork of a single individual.

History[]

Sculpture gardens have a long history around the world – the oldest known collection of human constructions is a Neanderthal "sculpture garden" unearthed in Bruniquel Cave in France in 1990.[2] Within the cave, broken stalagmites were arranged in a series of stacked or ring-like structures approximately 175,000 years ago.

In the United States, the oldest public sculpture garden is a part of the joint park and wildlife preserve Brookgreen Gardens,[3] located in South Carolina. The property was opened in 1932, and has since been included on the National Register of Historic Places.[4]

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References[]

  1. ^ McCarthy, Jane & Laurily Keir Epstein (1996). A Guide to the Sculpture Parks and Gardens of America. New York: Michael Kesend. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-935576-51-1.
  2. ^ Jaubert, Jacques; Verheyden, Sophie; Genty, Dominique; Soulier, Michel; Cheng, Hai; Blamart, Dominique; Burlet, Christian; Camus, Hubert; Delaby, Serge; Deldicque, Damien; Edwards, R. Lawrence (2016-06-02). "Early Neanderthal constructions deep in Bruniquel Cave in southwestern France". Nature. 534 (7605): 111–114. doi:10.1038/nature18291. ISSN 1476-4687. PMID 27251286.
  3. ^ "Brookgreen Gardens - Murrells Inlet South Carolina SC". www.sciway.net. Retrieved 2016-12-16.
  4. ^ "National Register of Historical Places - SOUTH CAROLINA (SC), Georgetown County". www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com. Retrieved 2016-12-16.

Further reading[]

  • Blázquez Abascal, Jimena; Valeria Varas; and Raúl Rispa. (2006). Sculpture Parks in Europe: A Guide to Art and Nature. Basel; Boston: Birkhäuser Architecture. ISBN 978-3764376253
  • Cigola, Francesca. (2013). Art Parks: A Tour of America's Sculpture Parks and Gardens. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. ISBN 978-1616891299
  • Harper, Glenn; and Twylene Moyer, eds. (2008). Landscapes for Art: Contemporary Sculpture Parks. Hamilton, NJ: ISC Press; and Seattle: University of Washington Press. ISBN 978-0295988610

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