The Garden as an Art - Mara Miller

In this book Miller challenges contemporary aesthetic theory to include gardens in an expanded definition of art.
She provides a radical critique of three central tenets within current intellectual debate:
first, the art historical notion that art should only be studied within the context of a single culture and period; second, the philosophical belief that art should be conceived as a discrete object unrelated to our survival as persons, as cultural communities, as a species; and third, the notion that all signifying systems are like language.