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The Japanese garden
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Title
The Japanese garden / Sophie Walker.
ISBN
9780714874777
0714874779
Publication
London ; New York, NY : Phaidon Press, 2017.
Physical Description
303 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 27 cm
Summary
An in-depth exploration spanning 800 years of the art, essence, and enduring impact of the Japanese garden. The most comprehensive exploration of the art of the Japanese garden published to date, this book covers more than eight centuries of the history of this important genre. Author and garden designer Sophie Walker brings fresh insight to this subject, exploring the Japanese garden in detail through a series of essays and with 100 featured gardens, ranging from ancient Shinto shrines to imperial gardens and contemporary Zen designs. Leading artists, architects, and other cultural practitioners offer personal perspectives in newly commissioned essays.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 16, 2021
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (page 297) and index.
Contents
Introduction : The nature of the garden
Beauty, terror and power
The way, body and mind
The gardens of Kyoto / Lee Ufan
Expanded understanding
Duality and reflection
Even the moon borrows its light from the sun / Tan Twan Eng
Mitate : a leap of imagination / Tatsuo Miyajima
The hidden, implied and imagined
The geometry of nature / Marcus du Sautoy
Zen challenge : the unenterable garden
Time, space and the dry garden
Limitless space / John Pawson
Void, silence and transition / Anish Kapoor
Death, tea and the garden
Inner space : the courtyard garden
The poetry of plants
Architecture of the garden / Tadao Andō
Plants of Japan
Periods of Japanese history
Map of Japan.
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