Bianca Maria Rinaldi Ideas of Chinese Gardens: Western Accounts, 1300-1860 9780812247633

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Автор: Bianca Maria Rinaldi
Название: Ideas of Chinese Gardens: Western Accounts, 1300-1860
ISBN: 9780812247633
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Ландшафтное искусство и архитектура

Сады (описания, история и т.п.)

ISBN-10: 0812247639
Обложка/Формат: Hardcover
Страницы: 384
Вес: 0.77 кг.
Дата издания: 11.12.2015
Серия: Penn studies in landscape architecture
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 23 illus.
Размер: 161 x 236 x 35
Ключевые слова: Gardens (descriptions, history etc), ARCHITECTURE / Landscape,LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / General
Подзаголовок: Western accounts, 1300-1860
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Поставляется из: Англии
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Europeans may be said to have first encountered the Chinese garden in Marco Polos narrative of his travels through the Mongol Empire and his years at the court of Kublai Khan. His account of a man-made lake abundant with fish, a verdant green hill lush with trees, raised walkways, and a plethora of beasts and birds took root in the European imagination as the description of a kind of Eden. Beginning in the sixteenth century, permanent interaction between Europe and China took form, and Jesuit missionaries and travelers recorded in letters and memoirs their admiration of Chinese gardens for their seeming naturalness. In the eighteenth century, European taste for chinoiserie reached its height, and informed observers of the Far East discovered that sophisticated and codified design principles lay behind the apparent simplicity of the Chinese garden. The widespread appreciation of the eighteenth century gave way to rejection in the nineteenth, a result of tensions over practical concerns such as trade imbalances and symbolized by the destruction of the imperial park of Yuanming yuan by a joint Anglo-French military expedition.
In Ideas of Chinese Gardens, Bianca Maria Rinaldi has gathered an unparalleled collection of westerners accounts, many freshly translated and all expertly annotated, as well as images that would have accompanied the texts as they circulated in Europe. Representing a great diversity of materials and literary genres, Rinaldis book includes more than thirty-five sources that span centuries, countries, languages, occupational biases, and political aims. By providing unmediated firsthand accounts of the testimony of these travelers and expatriates, Rinaldi illustrates how the Chinese garden was progressively lifted out of the realm of fantasy into something that could be compared with, and have an impact on, European traditions.

Ideas of Chinese Gardens: Western Accounts, 1300-1860, Bianca Maria Rinaldi