Of Arcs and Circles

Insights from Japan on Gardens, Nature, and Art

Marc Peter Keane (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

180 Seiten

2022
Stone Bridge Press (Verlag)
978-1-61172-072-3 (ISBN)

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A designer of Japanese gardens contemplates wildness, humanity, beauty, the liquid state of the world.

A renowned designer of Japanese gardens contemplates wildness, humanity, beauty, the liquid state of the world.

From his vantage point as a garden designer and writer based in Kyoto, Marc Peter Keane examines the world around him and delivers astonishing insights through an array of narratives.

How the names of gardens reveal their essential meaning. A new definition of what art is. What trees are really made of. The true meaning of the enigmatic torii gate found at Shinto shrines. Why we give flowers as gifts. The essential, underlying unity of the world.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	30.09.2021
Zusatzinfo	Black and white line drawings
Verlagsort	Berkeley CA
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 215 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Garten
ISBN-10	1-61172-072-9 / 1611720729
ISBN-13	978-1-61172-072-3 / 9781611720723
Zustand	Neuware