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Zen Landscapes: Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics

Zen Landscapes: Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics

Zen Landscapes: Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics

$49.00

Weiss, Allen
Reaktion. 2013
SKU: 95222

The essential elements of a dry Japanese garden are few: rocks, gravel, moss. Simultaneously a sensual matrix, a symbolic form, and a memory theater, these gardens exhibit beautiful miniaturization and precise craftsmanship. But their apparent minimalism belies a true complexity. In Zen Landscapes, Allen S. Weiss takes readers on an exciting journey through these exquisite sites, explaining how Japanese gardens must be approached according to the play of scale, surroundings, and seasons, as well as in relation to other artsÑrevealing them as living landscapes rather than abstract designs.

272 pp.