Theatergarden Bestiarium: The Garden as Theater as Museum

by Chris Dercon

The pruned seventeenth-century playground of Louis XIV's Versailles, the "theater garden," was a backdrop for fantasy and diversion, a central forum for public art. In this sense it was the historical precedent for nineteenth-century exposition parks and modern high-tech dreamworlds such as Coney Island and Disneyland The Theatergarden Bestiarium documents an extraordinary theater garden created in 1989 by thirteen international artists at the Institute...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262041057
• ISBN13: 9780262041058
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.85 lbs.