Fruitful Sites: Garden Culture in Ming Dynasty China - Brossura

Clunas, Craig

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0948462884 ISBN 13: 9780948462887

Casa editrice: Reaktion Books, 1996

Riassunto

Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate. As the first account in English to be wholly based on contemporary Chinese sources, this beautifully illustrated book grounds the practices of garden-making in Ming Dynasty China (1369–1644) firmly in the social and cultural history of the day.

Who owned gardens? Who visited them? How were they represented in words, in paintings and in visual culture generally, and what meanings did these representations hold at different levels of Chinese society? Drawing on a wide range of recent work in cultural theory, Craig Clunas provides for the first time a historical and materialist account of Chinese garden culture, and replaces broad generalizations and orientalist fantasy with a convincing picture of the garden's role in social life.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Craig Clunas is Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the University of Sussex. He has published extensively on the culture of the Ming period in China.

Product Description:

Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of real estate, and this study places the practices of garden-making in China during the Ming dynasty (1369-1644) in the social and cultural history of the day. Who owned gardens? Who visited them? How were they represented in words, in paintings and in visual culture generally, and what meanings did these representations hold at different levels of Chinese society? Drawing on a wide range of recent work in cultural theory, the author provides an historical and materialist account of Chinese garden culture, and a picture of the garden's role in social life.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Reaktion Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0948462884
• ISBN 13: 9780948462887
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240