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256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
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Berlin : Jovis, [2019]
Berlin : Jovis, [2019]
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Setting the stage for modernity : cafés, hotels, restaurants : places of pleasure and leisure = Trendsetter der Moderne : Cafés, Hotels, Restaurants : Orte des Genusses und der Freizeit / Franziska Bollerey.
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256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm
Setting the stage for modernity : cafés, hotels, restaurants : places of pleasure and leisure = Trendsetter der Moderne : Cafés, Hotels, Restaurants : Orte des Genusses und der Freizeit / Franziska Bollerey.
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Berlin : Jovis, [2019]
Berlin : Jovis, [2019]
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xi, 604 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm
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xi, 604 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm
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- Former Soviet republics Encyclopedias.,
- Russia Encyclopedias.,
- Soviet Union Encyclopedias.,
- Encyclopédies.,
- CEI = Communauté des Etats indépendants.,
- Russie Encyclopédies.,
- URSS Encyclopédies.,
- Ex-URSS Encyclopédies.,
- Russie.,
- Russia,
- Soviet Union,
- Soviet Union Former Soviet republics,
- Russia Encyclopedias and dictionaries.,
- U.S.S.R. Encyclopedias and dictionaries.,
- 4.935.,
- Ex-URSS Encyclopédie.,
- Russia -- Encyclopedias,
- Soviet Union -- Encyclopedias,
- Former Soviet republics -- Encyclopedias,
- encyclopedias.,
- Reference works,
- Encyclopedias,
- Ouvrages de référence.
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Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Former Soviet Union / Edited by Archie Brown, Michael Kaser, and Gerald S. Smith ; Associate Editor, Patricia Brown.
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xi, 604 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm
The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Russia and the Former Soviet Union / Edited by Archie Brown, Michael Kaser, and Gerald S. Smith ; Associate Editor, Patricia Brown.
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xi, 604 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 29 cm
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Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1994.
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- Former Soviet republics Encyclopedias.,
- Russia Encyclopedias.,
- Soviet Union Encyclopedias.,
- Encyclopédies.,
- CEI = Communauté des Etats indépendants.,
- Russie Encyclopédies.,
- URSS Encyclopédies.,
- Ex-URSS Encyclopédies.,
- Russie.,
- Russia,
- Soviet Union,
- Soviet Union Former Soviet republics,
- Russia Encyclopedias and dictionaries.,
- U.S.S.R. Encyclopedias and dictionaries.,
- 4.935.,
- Ex-URSS Encyclopédie.,
- Russia -- Encyclopedias,
- Soviet Union -- Encyclopedias,
- Former Soviet republics -- Encyclopedias,
- encyclopedias.,
- Reference works,
- Encyclopedias,
- Ouvrages de référence.
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted - and long baffled - viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. "Reading Zen in the Rocks", the(...)
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted - and long baffled - viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. "Reading Zen in the Rocks", the(...)
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Reading Zen in the rocks : the Japanese dry landscape garden
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted - and long baffled - viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. "Reading Zen in the Rocks", the classic essay on the karesansui garden by French art historian François Berthier, has now been translated by Graham Parkes, giving English-speaking readers a concise, thorough, and beautifully illustrated history of these gardens. Berthier's guided tour of the famous garden of Ryoanji (Temple) in Kyoto leads him into an exposition of the genre, focusing on its Chinese antecedents and affiliations with Taoist ideas and Chinese landscape painting. He traces the roles of Shinto and Zen Buddhism in the evolution of the garden and also considers how manual laborers from the lowest classes in Japan had a hand in creating some of its highest examples. Parkes contributes an equally original and substantive essay which delves into the philosophical importance of rocks and their "language of stone," delineating the difference between Chinese and Japanese rock gardens and their relationship to Buddhism. Together, the two essays compose one of the most comprehensive and elegantly written studies of this haunting garden form. "Reading Zen in the Rocks" is fully illustrated with photographs of all the major gardens discussed, making it a handsome addition to the library of anyone interested in gardening, Eastern philosophy, and the combination of the two that the karesansui so superbly represents.
Reading Zen in the rocks : the Japanese dry landscape garden
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted - and long baffled - viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. "Reading Zen in the Rocks", the classic essay on the karesansui garden by French art historian François Berthier, has now been translated by Graham Parkes, giving English-speaking readers a concise, thorough, and beautifully illustrated history of these gardens. Berthier's guided tour of the famous garden of Ryoanji (Temple) in Kyoto leads him into an exposition of the genre, focusing on its Chinese antecedents and affiliations with Taoist ideas and Chinese landscape painting. He traces the roles of Shinto and Zen Buddhism in the evolution of the garden and also considers how manual laborers from the lowest classes in Japan had a hand in creating some of its highest examples. Parkes contributes an equally original and substantive essay which delves into the philosophical importance of rocks and their "language of stone," delineating the difference between Chinese and Japanese rock gardens and their relationship to Buddhism. Together, the two essays compose one of the most comprehensive and elegantly written studies of this haunting garden form. "Reading Zen in the Rocks" is fully illustrated with photographs of all the major gardens discussed, making it a handsome addition to the library of anyone interested in gardening, Eastern philosophy, and the combination of the two that the karesansui so superbly represents.
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May 2005, Chicago
May 2005, Chicago
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Landscape Theory
Landscape Theory
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Leap before you look : Black Mountain College, 1933-1957 / Helen Molesworth ; with Ruth Erickson.
Leap before you look : Black Mountain College, 1933-1957 / Helen Molesworth ; with Ruth Erickson.
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399 pages : illustrations (some color), music (some color), portraits (some color) ; 33 cm
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399 pages : illustrations (some color), music (some color), portraits (some color) ; 33 cm
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- Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) Exhibitions.,
- Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.),
- Black Mountain College,
- Arts Study and teaching (Higher) North Carolina Black Mountain Exhibitions.,
- Arts in education North Carolina History 20th century.,
- Art, American North Carolina 20th century Exhibitions.,
- Art, American 20th century Exhibitions.,
- Arts Experimental methods Exhibitions.,
- Arts en éducation Caroline du Nord Histoire 20e siècle.,
- Art américain Caroline du Nord 20e siècle Expositions.,
- Art américain 20e siècle Expositions.,
- Arts Méthodes expérimentales Expositions.,
- 20.04 teaching, profession, organizations of the art sciences.,
- Arts Study and teaching (Higher) North Carolina Exhibitions.,
- Art, American North Carolina Exhibitions. 20th century.,
- Art, American Exhibitions. 20th century.,
- Exhibition catalogs.,
- Art, American,
- Arts Experimental methods,
- Arts in education,
- Arts Study and teaching (Higher),
- North Carolina,
- North Carolina Black Mountain,
- Exhibition catalogues.,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- History,
- EXhibition catalogs.,
- Catalogues d'exposition.
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Boston : Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston ; New Haven ; London : in association with Yale University Press, [2015], ©2015
Boston : Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston ; New Haven ; London : in association with Yale University Press, [2015], ©2015
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Leap before you look : Black Mountain College, 1933-1957 / Helen Molesworth ; with Ruth Erickson.
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399 pages : illustrations (some color), music (some color), portraits (some color) ; 33 cm
Leap before you look : Black Mountain College, 1933-1957 / Helen Molesworth ; with Ruth Erickson.
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Boston : Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston ; New Haven ; London : in association with Yale University Press, [2015], ©2015
Boston : Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston ; New Haven ; London : in association with Yale University Press, [2015], ©2015
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- Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.) Exhibitions.,
- Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.),
- Black Mountain College,
- Arts Study and teaching (Higher) North Carolina Black Mountain Exhibitions.,
- Arts in education North Carolina History 20th century.,
- Art, American North Carolina 20th century Exhibitions.,
- Art, American 20th century Exhibitions.,
- Arts Experimental methods Exhibitions.,
- Arts en éducation Caroline du Nord Histoire 20e siècle.,
- Art américain Caroline du Nord 20e siècle Expositions.,
- Art américain 20e siècle Expositions.,
- Arts Méthodes expérimentales Expositions.,
- 20.04 teaching, profession, organizations of the art sciences.,
- Arts Study and teaching (Higher) North Carolina Exhibitions.,
- Art, American North Carolina Exhibitions. 20th century.,
- Art, American Exhibitions. 20th century.,
- Exhibition catalogs.,
- Art, American,
- Arts Experimental methods,
- Arts in education,
- Arts Study and teaching (Higher),
- North Carolina,
- North Carolina Black Mountain,
- Exhibition catalogues.,
- exhibition catalogs.,
- History,
- EXhibition catalogs.,
- Catalogues d'exposition.
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416 pages : illustrations (black and white), facsimiles ; 25 cm
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416 pages : illustrations (black and white), facsimiles ; 25 cm
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- Rosi Braidotti -- Diedrich Diederichsen -- Nav Haq -- Manuel Borja-Villel -- Hakim Bey -- Diana Franssen -- Beatriz Herráez -- Nav Haq -- Antony Hudek -- Alexei Monroe -- Teresa Grandas -- Nazim Hikmet Richard Dikbaş -- Geert Lovink -- Merve Elveren and Erman Ata Uncu -- Ana Mizerit -- Anders Kreuger -- Jelena Vesić and Vladimir Jeerić Vlidi -- June Givanni -- Diana Franssen -- Cristina Cámara -- Henry Andersen -- Beatriz Herráez -- Lisa Godson -- Luc Deleu -- Annie Fletcher -- Bariş Gençer Baykan -- Božidar Flajšman -- Pablo Martínez -- Carlos Prieto del Campo -- Merve Elveren and Erman Ata Uncu -- Merve Elveren and Erman Ata Uncu --,
- Gal Kirn -- Neža Kogovšek Šalamon -- Merve Elveren and Erman Ata Uncu -- Pedro G. Romero -- Nick Aikens -- Lourdes Méndez -- Teresa Grandas -- Jesús Carrillo -- Igor Španjol -- Nick Aikens -- Beatriz Herráez -- Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez -- Amna Malik -- Nick Aikens -- Lubaina Himid -- Diana Franssen -- Diana Franssen -- Chris Straetling -- Ayşe Düzkan -- Merve Elveren and Erman Ata Uncu -- Tea Hvala -- Elisabeth Lebovici -- Lola Hinojosa -- Bojana Piškur -- Antony Hudek -- Marcelo Expósito -- Nick Aikens -- Boris Buden -- Pablo Martínez -- Charles Esche -- Meriç Öner -- Nav Haq -- Luís Trindade -- Aleš Mendiževec -- Corinne Diserens -- Diana Franssen -- Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio -- Merve Elveren and Erman Ata Uncu -- Bojana Cvejí, Marta Popivoda and Ana Vujanović -- Zdenka Badovinac and Bojana Piškur -- Nav Haq -- Mar Villaespesa -- Rogelio López Cuenca -- Charles Esche -- Nav Haq.,
- Aikens, Nick,,
- Grandas, Teresa,,
- Haq, Nav,,
- Herráez, Beatriz,,
- Petrešin-Bachelez, Nataša, 1976-
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- Europa,
- Arts Political aspects.,
- Arts, Modern 20th century.,
- Nineteen eighties.,
- Arts, Modern.,
- Arts 20e siècle.,
- Années quatre-vingt (Vingtième siècle),
- 20.06 philosophy of art.,
- 20.30 history of art: general.,
- Kunst,
- Aktivismus,
- Engagierte Kunst,
- Gesellschaft,
- Politik,
- Politische Kunst
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Amsterdam : Valiz, [2018]
Amsterdam : Valiz, [2018]
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The long 1980s : constellations of art, politics and identities : a collection of microhistories / editors, Nick Aikens, Teresa Grandas, Nav Haq, Beatriz Herráez, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez.
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416 pages : illustrations (black and white), facsimiles ; 25 cm
The long 1980s : constellations of art, politics and identities : a collection of microhistories / editors, Nick Aikens, Teresa Grandas, Nav Haq, Beatriz Herráez, Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez.
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Amsterdam : Valiz, [2018]
Amsterdam : Valiz, [2018]
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- Rosi Braidotti -- Diedrich Diederichsen -- Nav Haq -- Manuel Borja-Villel -- Hakim Bey -- Diana Franssen -- Beatriz Herráez -- Nav Haq -- Antony Hudek -- Alexei Monroe -- Teresa Grandas -- Nazim Hikmet Richard Dikbaş -- Geert Lovink -- Merve Elveren and Erman Ata Uncu -- Ana Mizerit -- Anders Kreuger -- Jelena Vesić and Vladimir Jeerić Vlidi -- June Givanni -- Diana Franssen -- Cristina Cámara -- Henry Andersen -- Beatriz Herráez -- Lisa Godson -- Luc Deleu -- Annie Fletcher -- Bariş Gençer Baykan -- Božidar Flajšman -- Pablo Martínez -- Carlos Prieto del Campo -- Merve Elveren and Erman Ata Uncu -- Merve Elveren and Erman Ata Uncu --,
- Gal Kirn -- Neža Kogovšek Šalamon -- Merve Elveren and Erman Ata Uncu -- Pedro G. Romero -- Nick Aikens -- Lourdes Méndez -- Teresa Grandas -- Jesús Carrillo -- Igor Španjol -- Nick Aikens -- Beatriz Herráez -- Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez -- Amna Malik -- Nick Aikens -- Lubaina Himid -- Diana Franssen -- Diana Franssen -- Chris Straetling -- Ayşe Düzkan -- Merve Elveren and Erman Ata Uncu -- Tea Hvala -- Elisabeth Lebovici -- Lola Hinojosa -- Bojana Piškur -- Antony Hudek -- Marcelo Expósito -- Nick Aikens -- Boris Buden -- Pablo Martínez -- Charles Esche -- Meriç Öner -- Nav Haq -- Luís Trindade -- Aleš Mendiževec -- Corinne Diserens -- Diana Franssen -- Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio -- Merve Elveren and Erman Ata Uncu -- Bojana Cvejí, Marta Popivoda and Ana Vujanović -- Zdenka Badovinac and Bojana Piškur -- Nav Haq -- Mar Villaespesa -- Rogelio López Cuenca -- Charles Esche -- Nav Haq.,
- Aikens, Nick,,
- Grandas, Teresa,,
- Haq, Nav,,
- Herráez, Beatriz,,
- Petrešin-Bachelez, Nataša, 1976-
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- Europa,
- Arts Political aspects.,
- Arts, Modern 20th century.,
- Nineteen eighties.,
- Arts, Modern.,
- Arts 20e siècle.,
- Années quatre-vingt (Vingtième siècle),
- 20.06 philosophy of art.,
- 20.30 history of art: general.,
- Kunst,
- Aktivismus,
- Engagierte Kunst,
- Gesellschaft,
- Politik,
- Politische Kunst
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168 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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Porto : A.mag : FAUP, 2012.
Porto : A.mag : FAUP, 2012.
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On the surface : images of architecture and public space in debate / ed., Pedro Leão Neto, Pedro Bandeira.
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168 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm
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Porto : A.mag : FAUP, 2012.
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216 pages, 3 folded pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 32 cm.
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216 pages, 3 folded pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 32 cm.
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Basel : Laba EPFL ; Zurich : Park Books, c2016.
Basel : Laba EPFL ; Zurich : Park Books, c2016.
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Venice lessons : industrial nostalgia : teaching and research in architecture / [editors, Harry Gugger [and five others]].
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216 pages, 3 folded pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps, plans ; 32 cm.
Venice lessons : industrial nostalgia : teaching and research in architecture / [editors, Harry Gugger [and five others]].
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Basel : Laba EPFL ; Zurich : Park Books, c2016.
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted--and long baffled--viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their(...)
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted--and long baffled--viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their(...)
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Reading zen in the rocks : the Japanese dry landscape garden
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted--and long baffled--viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. Reading Zen in the Rocks, the classic essay on the karesansui garden by French art historian François Berthier, has now been translated by Graham Parkes, giving English-speaking readers a concise, thorough, and beautifully illustrated history of these gardens. Berthier's guided tour of the famous garden of Ryoanji (Temple) in Kyoto leads him into an exposition of the genre, focusing on its Chinese antecedents and affiliations with Taoist ideas and Chinese landscape painting. He traces the roles of Shinto and Zen Buddhism in the evolution of the garden and also considers how manual laborers from the lowest classes in Japan had a hand in creating some of its highest examples. Parkes contributes an equally original and substantive essay which delves into the philosophical importance of rocks and their "language of stone," delineating the difference between Chinese and Japanese rock gardens and their relationship to Buddhism. Together, the two essays compose one of the most comprehensive and elegantly written studies of this haunting garden form.
Reading zen in the rocks : the Japanese dry landscape garden
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The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted--and long baffled--viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. Reading Zen in the Rocks, the classic essay on the karesansui garden by French art historian François Berthier, has now been translated by Graham Parkes, giving English-speaking readers a concise, thorough, and beautifully illustrated history of these gardens. Berthier's guided tour of the famous garden of Ryoanji (Temple) in Kyoto leads him into an exposition of the genre, focusing on its Chinese antecedents and affiliations with Taoist ideas and Chinese landscape painting. He traces the roles of Shinto and Zen Buddhism in the evolution of the garden and also considers how manual laborers from the lowest classes in Japan had a hand in creating some of its highest examples. Parkes contributes an equally original and substantive essay which delves into the philosophical importance of rocks and their "language of stone," delineating the difference between Chinese and Japanese rock gardens and their relationship to Buddhism. Together, the two essays compose one of the most comprehensive and elegantly written studies of this haunting garden form.
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May 2000, Chicago
May 2000, Chicago
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Landscape Theory
Landscape Theory
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131 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm
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Milan : Electa, [2022], ©2022
Milan : Electa, [2022], ©2022
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Giovanni Chiaramonte : realismo infinito / [edited by] Corrado Benigni.
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131 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 31 cm
Giovanni Chiaramonte : realismo infinito / [edited by] Corrado Benigni.
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Milan : Electa, [2022], ©2022
Milan : Electa, [2022], ©2022
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In his Habitat series, Olaf Otto Becker (born 1959) presents idyllic dreamlike places—paradisical tableaus from the jungles of Malaysia and Indonesia. Even the temperate rainforest of Redwood National Parks in California seems reassuringly intact: the mammoth trees are surviving thanks to rigorous conservation measures. By contrast, in the second half of his series Becker(...)
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In his Habitat series, Olaf Otto Becker (born 1959) presents idyllic dreamlike places—paradisical tableaus from the jungles of Malaysia and Indonesia. Even the temperate rainforest of Redwood National Parks in California seems reassuringly intact: the mammoth trees are surviving thanks to rigorous conservation measures. By contrast, in the second half of his series Becker(...)
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Olaf Otto Becker: reading the landscape
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In his Habitat series, Olaf Otto Becker (born 1959) presents idyllic dreamlike places—paradisical tableaus from the jungles of Malaysia and Indonesia. Even the temperate rainforest of Redwood National Parks in California seems reassuringly intact: the mammoth trees are surviving thanks to rigorous conservation measures. By contrast, in the second half of his series Becker shows what happens across the globe when international corporations clear large tracts of land and giant areas of barren, treeless terrain result. Erosion also does its work, and no life can survive in these places. In the final section, Becker presents the artificial "forests" conceived by various international architects to insert greenery into urban space.
Olaf Otto Becker: reading the landscape
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In his Habitat series, Olaf Otto Becker (born 1959) presents idyllic dreamlike places—paradisical tableaus from the jungles of Malaysia and Indonesia. Even the temperate rainforest of Redwood National Parks in California seems reassuringly intact: the mammoth trees are surviving thanks to rigorous conservation measures. By contrast, in the second half of his series Becker shows what happens across the globe when international corporations clear large tracts of land and giant areas of barren, treeless terrain result. Erosion also does its work, and no life can survive in these places. In the final section, Becker presents the artificial "forests" conceived by various international architects to insert greenery into urban space.
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February 2015
February 2015
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Photography monographs
Photography monographs
