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| Zen Landscapes: Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics | ||
| 作者 | Weiss, Allen S. |
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| 出版日期 | 2013.09.09 |
| 頁次 | 256 |
| 出版者 | Reaktion Books |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.reaktionbooks.co.uk/ |
| 出版地 | London, UK [倫敦, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 書籍=Book |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 摘要 | The essential elements of the dry Japanese garden are few: rocks, gravel, moss. Simultaneously a sensual matrix, a symbolic form and a mythic domain, these gardens exhibit precise craftsmanship and exquisite miniaturization. However, their apparent minimalism belies a profound complexity, which must be approached according to the play of scale, surroundings and seasons, and especially in relation to the other arts, thus allowing us to experience them as living landscapes rather than as merely abstracted design. These gardens partake of the Zen aesthetics of the tea ceremony, which also permeates Japanese poetry, painting, calligraphy, architecture, cuisine and ceramics, all of which entail different modes of representation. Japanese art favours suggestion and allusion, the indistinct over the literal: the moment when objects emerge or disappear, and the border between figuration and abstraction, are particularly valued. This is an art of the incipient and the potential, inspired by the intimation of continual transformation. This book shows how ceramics – seen as the very sublimation of the earth – plays a crucial role related at once to the site-specificity of gardens, to the ritualized codes of the tea ceremony and to the everyday gestures of the culinary table. Zen Landscapes is the first in-depth study in the West to examine the correspondences between gardens and ceramics, suggesting new implications for theories of representation, arguing for the rightful place of ceramics among the fine arts and above all revealing original ways of seeing. This unique study will appeal to readers interested in landscape design, ceramic appreciation and the customs, craftsmanship and culture of Japan. |
| 目次 | Translator's Preface Reading Zen in the Rocks: The Japanese Dry Landscape Garden Chronology The Role of Rock in Japanese Dry Landscape Garden by Graham Parkes Notes Selected Bibliography Index |
| ISBN | 1780231903; 9781780231907 (Hardback) |
| 點閱次數 | 78 |
| 建檔日期 | 2017.04.17 |
| 更新日期 | 2017.04.17 |
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