Main entry:

Cheng, Liyao.

Title & Author:

Private gardens / Liyao Cheng ; [translated by Zhang Long].

Publication:

Wien ; New York : Springer, ©1999.

Description:

187 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 37 cm.

Series:

Zhongguo gu jian zhu da xi. English
Ancient Chinese architecture

Notes:
Machine derived contents note: Photographs: Jiangsu Province, Zhejiang Provinc,e Guangdong Province -- Text: Development of Private Gardens: The garden as a means fo seclusion ? freeing man from his worldly cares in order that he may gain a clearer vision of the truth ? Artistic Characteristics of Private Gardens: The beauty of primitive simplicity. The merging of poetry in natural scenery. A walk through a scroll painting ? Layout Plan and Design: To create the limitless within a limited space, To integrate the solemn and subdued with the charming and bright. Buildings of Hills and Rockeries and Handling of Water: Harmonious integration of the splendour of mountains with lakes, pools and brooks in deep valleys. Building Forms, Types and Materials: Exquisitely refined pavilions, studios, waterside pavilions and land boats -- Appendices, Notes on the Photographs, Maps and Chronology.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

The garden as total artwork: in contrast to Western-inspired garden design with its emphasis on trees and shrubs, lawns and flower-beds, it is the overall topographical effect that is considered paramount in the private garden of China. Artificial hills and carefully laid-out ponds and lakes transform the mostly flat terrain into a magical miniature landscape. It is the sheer subtlety of the layout of these gardens, inspired as they were by Confucianism, landscape painting and poetry, that give the onlooker the impression on occasion that he has before him an intricate water colour. Splendid photographs convey the magic of these gardens, which will be a source of inspiration for every garden lover. The historian, architect and all those interested in China and Chinese culture will, however, also find much that is valuable.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

3211830073
9783211830079
3211830308 (complete series)
9783211830307 (complete series)

Subject:

Garden structures China.
Gardens, Chinese China.
Architecture China History Ming-Qing dynasties, 1368-1912.
Landscape gardening China.
Constructions de jardins Chine.
Jardins chinois Chine.
Architecture Chine Histoire 1368-1912 (Dynasties des Ming et des Qing)
Jardins Architecture Chine.
Architecture Ming-Qing dynasties
Garden structures
Gardens, Chinese
Landscape gardening
Tuinarchitectuur.
Gardens, Chinese China. Pictorial works.
Landscape gardening China. Pictorial works.
China

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Zhongguo gu jian zhu da xi. English.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 204795
Call No.: SB466 .C5 L5 1999
Status: Available