PLANTING DREAMS: SHAPING AUSTRALIAN GARDENS

摘要

If Mark Twain saw fit to comment that Australian history was always picturesque and the "chiefest" novelty the country had to offer, then Richard Aitken's exhibition Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian Gardens at the State Library of New South Wales shows that, over the last five hundred years (and across a number of different countries), there have been many botanical dreamers who sought to map and explain Twain's "incongruities, and contradictions."