Add to ORKGThe article proposes a discussion on the process that engendered, in the West, the invention of a compositional formula that represented “the Chinese Garden”, from the nineteenth century onward. Without focusing on the widely known influence of chinoiserie in the construction of a Western idea of the exotic, it will discuss nineteenth-century Western travellers’ accounts of the gardens of China. Supporting the simplified visual image proposed by the willow pattern, verbal accounts contributed to the creation of a stereotyped idea of Chinese gardens based on the repetition of a few iconic elements. The article also discusses how, this popular Western image of an ideal “Chinese garden” has inspired, in more recent years, the design of Chines...
Chinese and Western garden art are two different systems because of their different physical ...
Importance of the art of the garden in Chinese Cultural History The Chinese art of the garden is re...
The essay focuses on the political roots and implications of Europe’s fascination with the Chinese g...
China played a seminal role in the evolution of 17th and 18th-century European garden art. While fro...
In 1690, Sir William Temple, one of the earlier theorists of the landscape garden and the first to p...
n the first half of the eighteenth century, England experienced a drastic change in its horticultura...
The article discusses the symbolic role of gardens as expressions of cultural and social diversity. ...
Publisher’s description, from the book cover: “Europeans may be said to have first encountered the ...
The English garden design style and the landscape garden movement became the most emblematic cultura...
While much scholarship has focused on the impact of Chinese gardens and garden philosophy in the Wes...
Western views of the Chinese art of the garden have evolved, since the seventeenth century, in line ...
Abstract: The differences and identities of the arts of classical gardens between China and the Wes...
As Chinese contemporary architecture is entering into a new era along with rapid economic developmen...
The essay explores the significant transformation in perceptions of the Chinese garden on the basis ...
As Chinese contemporary architecture is entering into a new era along with rapid economic developmen...
Chinese and Western garden art are two different systems because of their different physical ...
Importance of the art of the garden in Chinese Cultural History The Chinese art of the garden is re...
The essay focuses on the political roots and implications of Europe’s fascination with the Chinese g...
China played a seminal role in the evolution of 17th and 18th-century European garden art. While fro...
In 1690, Sir William Temple, one of the earlier theorists of the landscape garden and the first to p...
n the first half of the eighteenth century, England experienced a drastic change in its horticultura...
The article discusses the symbolic role of gardens as expressions of cultural and social diversity. ...
Publisher’s description, from the book cover: “Europeans may be said to have first encountered the ...
The English garden design style and the landscape garden movement became the most emblematic cultura...
While much scholarship has focused on the impact of Chinese gardens and garden philosophy in the Wes...
Western views of the Chinese art of the garden have evolved, since the seventeenth century, in line ...
Abstract: The differences and identities of the arts of classical gardens between China and the Wes...
As Chinese contemporary architecture is entering into a new era along with rapid economic developmen...
The essay explores the significant transformation in perceptions of the Chinese garden on the basis ...
As Chinese contemporary architecture is entering into a new era along with rapid economic developmen...
Chinese and Western garden art are two different systems because of their different physical ...
Importance of the art of the garden in Chinese Cultural History The Chinese art of the garden is re...
The essay focuses on the political roots and implications of Europe’s fascination with the Chinese g...