Marc Peter Keane

Of Arcs and Circles (eBook, ePUB)

Insights from Japan on Gardens, Nature, and Art

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

• New York Times has labeled the author "the undisputed American master of Japanese garden scholars"
• There are more than 300 public Japanese gardens in North America.
• There are close to 30 Asian Art Museums in USA.
• Portland Japanese Garden had 500,000 visitors in 2019
• The leading professional organization is North American Japanese Garden Association with special relationships with the following important US Japanese gardens:

1. Anderson Japanese Gardens, Rockford, IL
2. The Japanese Hill and Pond Garden, Brooklyn
3. Botanic Garden, NY?Birmingham Botanical Gardens, AL
4. Sansho-en, Chicago Botanic Garden, IL
5. Shofu-en, Denver Botanic Garden, CO
6. Earl Burns Miller Japanese Garden, CSULB, Long Beach CA 7. Fort Worth Botanic Garden, TX
7. Hakone Gardens, Saratoga, CA
8. Japanese Friendship Garden of Phoenix, AZ
9. Seiwa-en, Missouri Botanical Garden, MO
10. The Japanese Garden of the Montreal Botanical Garden, Quebec, Canada 12. Portland Japanese Garden, OR
11. Shofuso Japanese House and Garden, Philadelphia, PA
12. Nitobe Memorial Garden, UBC
13. Botanical Garden & Centre for Plant Research, Vancouver, Canada

• there are over 300 Asian Studies programs at US universities (Association of Asian Studies)

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stone Bridge Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611729542
• Artikelnr.: 63260294

Autorenporträt

Marc Peter Keane is a landscape architect and a leading expert on Japanese garden design. He has made Kyoto his home for 20 years. Among his books are the essay collection The Art of Setting Stones, and the designer's idea-book Japanese Garden Notes. His gardens have been published many times, including in Architectural Digest, Landscape Architecture, and Martha Stewart magazine.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Foreword
Magnitudes
The name of the willow
Wild in the city
Interfaces
Karesansui
Of arcs and circles
Little secrets everywhere
Flowers
Art
Confluences
Wind in the trees
Waste not
Dissolving
Dream garden
Unity
Symmetry
Rivers of the mind
The last god
Paths
Subtleties
On torii gates
Wheels turning
A garden by any other name
Emptiness