After the Garden (2014)
The Gardens of Giverny and Geographic Tongues
by Elisabeth Hogeman
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About the Book
These photographs were made as part of the Munn Artist Residency, where I spent three months working in Claude Monet’s gardens in Giverny, France, funded by the Versailles Foundation. Drawing on the history of the garden, Geographic Tongues re-imagines the Earth depicted in the exterior panels of Hieronymus Bosch’s altarpiece The Garden of Earthly Delights as a series of tongues. By replacing the globe as a representation of the world, these tongues play with the idea that the world emerges from language. Bosch’s depiction of the creation of the world includes an inscription taken from the Psalms—“For He spoke and it was made; for He commanded and it was created.” Through this inscription Bosch insinuates that the world is one big utterance. Being severed, these tongues cannot speak, yet in their vegetative state they yield their own geographies.
The gardens at Giverny resonate with Bosch’s altarpiece, not only as a hyperbolic, enclosed space, but also as a citation of an ideal garden. This book situates Geographic Tongues within Monet’s revered gardens, historically suspended through meticulous labor. These photographs of Monet’s gardens mark my relationship to the place which informed the conception and making of Geographic Tongues.
The gardens at Giverny resonate with Bosch’s altarpiece, not only as a hyperbolic, enclosed space, but also as a citation of an ideal garden. This book situates Geographic Tongues within Monet’s revered gardens, historically suspended through meticulous labor. These photographs of Monet’s gardens mark my relationship to the place which informed the conception and making of Geographic Tongues.
Features & Details
- Primary Category: Fine Art Photography
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Project Option: Large Format Landscape, 13×11 in, 33×28 cm
# of Pages: 68 -
Isbn
- Hardcover, ImageWrap: 9781457999130
- Publish Date: Apr 29, 2014
- Language English
- Keywords Artist Residency, Monet, Giverny, Gardens
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