Wybe Kuitert

Japanese Gardens and Landscapes, 1650-1950

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Japanese Landscapes and Gardens, 1650-1950 Wybe Kuitert presents a richly illustrated survey of the gardens and the people who commissioned, created, and used them and chronicles the modernization of traditional aesthetics in the context of economic, political, and environmental transformation.

Produktdetails

• Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture
• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 264mm x 225mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 1922g
• ISBN-13: 9780812244748
• ISBN-10: 0812244745
• Artikelnr.: 45606951

Autorenporträt

Wybe Kuitert is a licensed landscape architect and Professor of Environmental Studies at Seoul National University. He is author of Themes in the History of Japanese Garden Art.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Chapter 1. Landscape Enjoyed at Ease
Chapter 2. Garden Stuff and Blueprints for the Masses
Chapter 3. Time and Space in a Cup of Tea
Chapter 4. Defining the Japanese Garden: Science, Vacuum, and Confusion
Chapter 5. Passion and Emotion in the Meiji Landscape
Chapter 6. Reforming the Tradition
Chapter 7. Everybody's Landscape
Epilogue. The Cricket Cage
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments