{"product_id":"curas-garden","title":"Cura's Garden","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eCura's Garden\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eBen Thorp Brown\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781941753941\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eInventory Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2026\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e152\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eExpanding on the Roman myth of Cura, Brown's theatrical assortment of flora, fog, sculpture and sound coheres into a lush sensorial experience\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished with Roma Publications and Kunsthal Gent.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 2023, American artist Ben Thorp Brown (born 1983) opened \u003ci\u003eCura's Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, a long-term, immersive exhibition set in the medieval garden of Kunsthal Gent, a former Carmelite monastery. Expanding on the Roman myth of Cura, the project brings together a theatrical assortment of trees and other flora, fog, sculpture and sound--elements that cohere into a dense, indeterminate sensorial experience. This richly illustrated volume, organized around the seasons, features vivid documentation across two years of the garden's young life alongside linocut botanical prints by the artist's mother, Cary Thorp Brown.\u003cbr\u003eNew essays by Laura McLean-Ferris, Laurie Cluitmans and Robert Wiesenberger explore the conceptual, formal, art historical and affective valences of \u003ci\u003eCura's Garden\u003c\/i\u003e, and a roundtable conversation between Brown and Laura Herman, Jan Minne and Valentijn Goethals considers the history and development of the project, from the artist's 2019 film \u003ci\u003eCura\u003c\/i\u003e, a precursor to the garden, through present concerns around the maintenance and unfolding nature of this site-specific work.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Inventory Press","offers":[{"title":"Cura's Garden | Ben Thorp Brown | Hardcover | 9781941753941 | New | Art 1745826","offer_id":49161461235864,"sku":"1745826","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71RMWRO1tcL.jpg?v=1779804185","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/curas-garden","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}