Chinese Classical Gardens Of Suzhou

Author : Dunzhen Liu
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Companies
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Classical Gardens of Suzhou written by Dunzhen Liu and published by McGraw-Hill Companies. This book was released on 1993 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You will gain deep insight not only into the art of gardening in China, but into its historical significance within the context of gardening and landscape design worldwide.".

Author : Ron Henderson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812207254
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gardens of Suzhou written by Ron Henderson and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suzhou, near Shanghai, is among the great garden cities of the world. The city's masterpieces of classical Chinese garden design, built from the eleventh through the nineteenth centuries, attract thousands of visitors each year and continue to influence international design. In The Gardens of Suzhou, landscape architect and scholar Ron Henderson guides visitors through seventeen of these gardens. The book explores UNESCO world cultural heritage sites such as the Master of the Nets Garden, Humble Administrator's Garden, Lingering Garden, and Garden of the Peaceful Mind, as well as other lesser-known but equally significant gardens in the Suzhou region. Unlike the acclaimed religious and imperial gardens found elsewhere in Asia, Suzhou's gardens were designed by scholars and intellectuals to be domestic spaces that drew upon China's rich visual and literary tradition, embedding cultural references within the landscapes. The elements of the gardens confront the visitor: rocks, trees, and walls are pushed into the foreground to compress and compact space, as if great hands had gathered a mountainous territory of rocky cliffs, forests, and streams, then squeezed it tightly until the entire region would fit into a small city garden. Henderson's commentary opens Suzhou's gardens, with their literary and musical references, to non-Chinese visitors. Drawing on years of intimate experience and study, he combines the history and spatial organization of each garden with personal insights into their rockeries, architecture, plants, and waters. Fully illustrated with newly drawn plans, maps, and original photographs, The Gardens of Suzhou invites visitors, researchers, and designers to pause and observe astonishing works from one of the world's greatest garden design traditions.

Author : Dunzhen Liu
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chinese Classical Gardens of Suzhou written by Dunzhen Liu and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Chaoxiong Feng
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Classical Gardens of Suzhou written by Chaoxiong Feng and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hongxun Yang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.8F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Classical Gardens of China written by Hongxun Yang and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. Stewart Johnston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521394772
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scholar Gardens of China written by R. Stewart Johnston and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the most thorough study of its subject in any western language. It places particular emphasis on urban context and highlights the unique contribution made by the Chinese garden to architectural spatial design, using new analysis. It examines the history and form of the private garden and the special relationship which existed between house and garden. A study of the novel The Dream of Red Mansions explores the intellectual fascination of the Chinese scholar with the art of the garden. Dr Johnston explores more than forty gardens (having studied most of them at first hand) and, using a wealth of photographs and drawings most of which have never previously been published, makes a meticulous analysis of each. This investigation of gardens from the Han, Tan and Song dynasties includes the great classical tradition of Suzhou, private gardens from seven other Chinese cities, and the lesser-known vernacular garden tradition of small towns and villages.

Author : Yi Wang
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1938368304
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History Of Classical Chinese Gardens written by Yi Wang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardens are a type of landscape art created by the hands of human beings. Chinese gardens are not only one of China's traditional cultural treasures, but they are also a unique charm of human cultural heritage.Literati gardens occupy an essential position among Chinese gardens — one of the three major genres of gardens in the world. The reason why literati gardens occupy an important position in classical Chinese gardens, and even in the entire system of traditional Chinese culture and art, lies in their exquisite architecture, exotic flowers and whimsical stones available for the exploration and appreciation of the literati. More significantly, gardens have provided a venue of daily life, academic writings, artistic creation, social gatherings, and other cultural activities for ancient Chinese scholars. Consequently, a wealth of traditional Chinese cultural factors is embedded in the intricate art of landscape architecture. The constant integration and interaction of traditional Chinese culture and gardens have in turn nurtured a unique Chinese garden culture.Chinese gardens are a critical embodiment of Chinese culture, distinctly exemplifying the ancient Chinese patriarchal system, the cosmology, the personality ideal, and other cultural elements. The evolution of the cultural history of Chinese gardens is in harmony with the overall process of the Chinese cultural history.This book describes the major genres, the characteristics, and the formation of classical Chinese gardens — as well as the relationship between classical Chinese gardens and classical Chinese culture and arts — in a more succinct, plain language. The publisher believes that this book will certainly provide the reader with an authentic and comprehensive overview of the Chinese garden culture.Published by SCPG Publishing Corporation and distributed by World Scientific for all markets except China

Author : Juhani Pallasmaa
Publisher : Lars Muller Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9783037786604
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Walls of Suzhou Gardens written by Juhani Pallasmaa and published by Lars Muller Publishers. This book was released on 2021 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lyrical portrait of texture, light and the passage of time at the Suzhou gardens, from the author of The Intimacy of Making In the classical gardens of Suzhou in China, surface transforms into space and walls become landscapes. In her journey through this UNESCO World Heritage Site, London-based Swiss French photographer Hélène Binet (born 1959) captures the traces of environmental influences on built structures. Her impressive series of photography shows how weather and time have turned blank walls into vivid depictions of nature. In Binet's images, architecture becomes the frame for imaginary landscapes. By interweaving foreground and background, the artist tells stories that shift between the two dimensions of the plane and the three dimensions of space. In an accompanying essay, architect and writer Juhani Pallasmaa captures the dreamlike quality of the photographs and emphasizes Binet's skill of balancing precision and vagueness to create images that stimulate the viewer's imagination.

Author : Gordon Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191004170
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Garden History: A Very Short Introduction written by Gordon Campbell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gardens take many forms, and have a variety of functions. They can serve as spaces of peace and tranquilty, a way to cultivate wildlife, or as places to develop agricultural resources. Globally, gardens have inspired, comforted, and sustained people from all walks of life, and since the Garden of Eden many iconic gardens have inspired great artists, poets, musicians, and writers. In this Very Short Introduction, Gordon Campbell embraces gardens in all their splendour, from parks, and fruit and vegetable gardens to ornamental gardens, and takes the reader on a globe-trotting historical journey through iconic and cultural signposts of gardens from different regions and traditions. Ranging from the gardens of ancient Persia to modern day allotments, he concludes by looking to the future of the garden in the age of global warming, and the adaptive spirit of human innovation. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Author : Duncan Murray Campbell
Publisher : Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks Texts in Garden and Landscape Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780884024651
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature written by Duncan Murray Campbell and published by Ex Horto: Dumbarton Oaks Texts in Garden and Landscape Studies. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dumbarton Oaks Anthology of Chinese Garden Literature is the first comprehensive collection in English of over two millennia of Chinese writing about gardens and landscape. Featuring new and previously published translations, this anthology includes a glossary of translated names, Chinese names, and binomials.