Western views of the Chinese art of the garden have evolved, since the seventeenth century, in line with changing attitudes towards China as a whole. The sinophile inclinations of the Jesuits at the courts of Kangxi and Qianlong led to an admiration of the art of Chinese gardens as a better imitation of what was deemed « natural » than nature itself could provide. Later, the sinophobia of Macartney and the Europeans at the time of the Opium War tended to discredit the perverse tastes of the Chinese who tortured nature in their gardens just as they tortured the feet of their ladies in the women's apartments. Once the consolidation of British and Western ascendancy in China had alleviated anti-Chinese sentiments, the arts of China, including ...
In 1690, Sir William Temple, one of the earlier theorists of the landscape garden and the first to p...
While much scholarship has focused on the impact of Chinese gardens and garden philosophy in the Wes...
Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of r...
Western views of the Chinese art of the garden have evolved, since the seventeenth century, in line ...
Importance of the art of the garden in Chinese Cultural History The Chinese art of the garden is re...
The English garden design style and the landscape garden movement became the most emblematic cultura...
China had a seminal role on evolution of European garden art of 17th and 18th centuries. If, beginni...
Publisher’s description, from the book cover: “Europeans may be said to have first encountered the ...
En China existe una tradición milenaria de diseño de jardines que ha tenido como objetivo la búsque...
Abstract: The differences and identities of the arts of classical gardens between China and the Wes...
n the first half of the eighteenth century, England experienced a drastic change in its horticultura...
Chinese and Western garden art are two different systems because of their different physical ...
During the 18th century, Western garden art underwent a radical change, which led from the regular a...
The essay explores the significant transformation in perceptions of the Chinese garden on the basis ...
A great Chinese Imperial Garden : the Yuanming yuan The Yuanming yuan, the eighteenth-century epitom...
In 1690, Sir William Temple, one of the earlier theorists of the landscape garden and the first to p...
While much scholarship has focused on the impact of Chinese gardens and garden philosophy in the Wes...
Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of r...
Western views of the Chinese art of the garden have evolved, since the seventeenth century, in line ...
Importance of the art of the garden in Chinese Cultural History The Chinese art of the garden is re...
The English garden design style and the landscape garden movement became the most emblematic cultura...
China had a seminal role on evolution of European garden art of 17th and 18th centuries. If, beginni...
Publisher’s description, from the book cover: “Europeans may be said to have first encountered the ...
En China existe una tradición milenaria de diseño de jardines que ha tenido como objetivo la búsque...
Abstract: The differences and identities of the arts of classical gardens between China and the Wes...
n the first half of the eighteenth century, England experienced a drastic change in its horticultura...
Chinese and Western garden art are two different systems because of their different physical ...
During the 18th century, Western garden art underwent a radical change, which led from the regular a...
The essay explores the significant transformation in perceptions of the Chinese garden on the basis ...
A great Chinese Imperial Garden : the Yuanming yuan The Yuanming yuan, the eighteenth-century epitom...
In 1690, Sir William Temple, one of the earlier theorists of the landscape garden and the first to p...
While much scholarship has focused on the impact of Chinese gardens and garden philosophy in the Wes...
Gardens are sites that can be at one and the same time admired works of art and valuable pieces of r...