Construction of "the Science of Garden Art" as a cross-disciplinary study

2020 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 18K18490
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Research (Exploratory)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Medium-sized Section 1:Philosophy, art, and related fields
• Research Institution: Keio University
• Principal Investigator: Goto Fumiko 慶應義塾大学, 文学部(三田), 教授 (00280529)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-06-29 – 2021-03-31
• Keywords: 庭園芸術学 / 芸術学 / 近代建築論における空間概念論 / 空間-時間的空間形成 / 改革庭園 / ドイツ近代園芸と造園 / 庭園の植物利用

Outline of Final Research Achievements

With the activities of Karl Foerster (1874-1970), a perennial plant cultivator and landscape architect who led the "nature garden" in Germany at the beginning of the 20th century, and Peter Behrens (1868-1940), an architect with whom he had a close relationship, as the core of my research, I succeeded in laying the foundation for the proposal of " the science of garden art" as a new field of garden art research through a cross-disciplinary research approach. For this purpose, the following procedures were used: clarification of the characteristics of planting design in the restoration of the garden of Goethe’s vineyard house in Weimar (1948/49) by Foerster, demonstration of the fact that the landscaping activity and the theory of garden art by Behrens were based on the modern science of art at the end of the 19th century, and elucidating the connection of “science of garden art” to 20th century modernism through a focus on the development of the "nature garden”.

Free Research Field

西洋美術史（ドイツ近代美術）

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

近代の庭園芸術が重視した生命的で動態的な自然的環境としての特性を、植物学、園芸学、庭園史学等とのクロス・ディシプリナリーな接合の位相において検討することで、芸術研究の新たな領域である「庭園芸術学」の可能性を実証的に基礎づけたことに最重要な意義がある。それによって初めて開拓し得たのが、20世紀初頭の庭園芸術理論を介して19世紀の近代芸術学を改革庭園における園芸・造園活動に媒介する視座である。そこで獲得した歴史的知見を最新のデジタル人文学に接合する必然性と可能性の検討に着手し、将来、庭園芸術学に基づき近代の庭園文化財を3D動画像等最新メディア化して公開し、社会・文化に寄与することを展望している。