The Garden Against Time - In Search of a Common Paradise - Softcover Iva Radivojević Bobby Hutcherson

Bobby Hutcherson

Arnaud Evrand/ETH Zurich

The book applies the methods of artistic research to convey a sense of how mental space

and the mysterious channels of the Stamford Brook which hold West London in a tangled embrace

The Garden Against Time - In Search of a Common Paradise - Softcover Iva Radivojević Bobby HutchersonMoving between real and imagined gardens, from Miltons Paradise Lost to John Clares enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth. But the story of the garden doesnt always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion. Its also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams. From the improbable queer