The garden retreat in Asia and Europe ways of dwelling in a torn world / edited by Yue Zhuang, Alasdair Forbes, and Michael Charlesworth.
| Other author | Charlesworth, Michael, 1955 |
| Other author | Forbes, Alasdair |
| Other author | Zhuang, Yue, 1976 |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2025. |
| Description | xi, 267 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates illustrations (some color) 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Physical medium | illustrations |
| Contents | Introduction / Michael Charlesworth, Alasdair Forbes and Yue Zhuang -- Part I: The garden retreat and theatricality. Garden, a refuge and a stage: death of a garden owner and its moonlit theatricality in seventeenth-century China / Lin Zhu -- Daguerre's 'natural diorama': landscape design and picturesque retreat in nineteenth-century Bry-sur-Marne / Kasie Alt -- Part II: Dwelling, garden and the poetic image. Three settings from Wen Hengshan's Album of Poems and Paintings of the Garden of Artless Administration, 1533 / Hongde Wu and Stanislaus Fung -- The gardens of Omar Khayyam: poetic botany between Khurasan and Kathmandu / Iván Szántó -- Finding solace in garden memories: Osvald Sirén's life during the Second World War / Minna Törmä -- Part III: Moral virtues and poetic virtues. Garden practices, 'quiet' virtues and understanding / David Cooper -- Gardens of refuge, innocence and toil / Ian James Kidd -- Withdrawal and bewilderment: Plaz Metaxu, the 'place that is between' / Alasdair Forbes -- Part IV: The garden retreat and mortality. Pope's Arcadia: death re-enchanted / Yue Zhuang -- 'Each stone has a life to tell': Derek Jarman's garden at Prospect Cottage / Michael Charlesworth -- An afterword on withdrawal / Alasdair Forbes. |
| Abstract | "The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or emergency. In the current times of war, pandemic, climate change, and global anxiety, the value of the garden as a sanctuary, a space where we can find refuge in a natural environment, has taken on new and poignant meanings and has attracted increasing academic interest. Multidisciplinary and multicultural in scope, this book explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or emergency. Examining perspectives from scholars including art historians, architects, philosophers, landscape architects and garden practitioners, it reassess the restorative impact of the garden, whether understood from an individual, cultural or environmental point of view. Ranging widely across Asia and Europe, its chapters examine ideas, narratives and practices from the 4th-century Chinese poet Tao Yuanming, to the 12th century Iranian polymath Omar Khayyam, through to the late 20th-century British artist and film-maker Derek Jarman. Drawing upon traditional Asian philosophies like Buddhism, Daoism and Sufism and combining these with more recent western philosophies, the aim is to question how the unique virtues of gardens and designed landscapes can help to poise, educate, and possibly transform attitudes and behaviours in a time of personal, environmental, or cultural crisis. At once poetic, scholarly, and rigorous, this book provides insightful reading for students and researchers in landscape architecture, garden history, architectural history, art history, and cultural history"-- Publisher description. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2025410197 |
| ISBN | 9781350447387 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1350447382 hardcover |
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