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Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives by Margaret Morton and Diana Balmori (1993, Hardcover)

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In this book of photographs and commentary on gardens built by homeless or impoverished New York City inhabitants, Diana Balmori and Margaret Morton liberate the work garden from its transitional association with wealth and leisure, and connect it to a more ephemeral but not less powerful group of constructions made by people deprived of their basic needs. In their reuse of nearly everything discarded, their sparing use of water and plant materials and their economical treatment of space, these gardens speak the languages of our times. All the gardens documented here are or were on the Lower East Side of New York and were built by either the homeless or by tenement dwellers and squatters who appropriated the spaces and turned them to their own use. They are not subsistence gardens, but gardens made up of found objects in an effort to mark off a space for pleasure, social activity or private retreat.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Yale University Press
ISBN-10
0300057725
ISBN-13
9780300057720
eBay Product ID (ePID)
103927

Product Key Features

Book Title
Transitory Gardens, Uprooted Lives
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
1993
Topic
Poverty & Homelessness, General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Gardening, Social Science
Author
Margaret Morton, Diana Balmori
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight
29.5 Oz
Item Length
11 in
Item Width
8.8 in

Additional Product Features

Lccn
93-004419
Target Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Sb457.4.H64b34 1993
Copyright Date
1993

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