The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or emergency.
In the current times of war, pandemic, climate change, and global anxiety, the value of the garden as a sanctuary, a space where we can find refuge in a natural environment, has taken on new and poignant meanings and has attracted increasing academic interest. Multidisciplinary and multicultural in scope, this book explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or emergency. Examining perspectives from scholars including art historians, architects, philosophers, landscape architects and garden practitioners, it reassess the restorative impact of the garden, whether understood from an individual, cultural or environmental point of view.
Ranging widely across Asia and Europe, its chapters examine ideas, narratives and practices from the 4th-century Chinese poet Tao Yuanming, to the 12th century Iranian polymath Omar Khayyam, through to the late 20th-century British artist and film-maker Derek Jarman. Drawing upon traditional Asian philosophies like Buddhism, Daoism and Sufism and combining these with more recent western philosophies, the aim is to question how the unique virtues of gardens and designed landscapes can help to poise, educate, and possibly transform attitudes and behaviours in a time of personal, environmental, or cultural crisis.
At once poetic, scholarly, and rigorous, this book provides insightful reading for students and researchers in landscape architecture, garden history, architectural history, art history, and cultural history.
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Explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or emergency.
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors Biographies
Acknowledgements
Introduction Michael Charlesworth (University of Texas, USA), Alasdair
Forbes, and Yue Zhuang (both University of Exeter, UK)
I The Garden Retreat and Theatricality
1. Garden, a Refuge and a Stage: Death of a Garden Owner and its Moonlit
Theatricality in Seventeenth-century China Lin Zhu (Southeast University,
China)
2. Daguerres Natural Diorama: Landscape Design and Picturesque Retreat in
19th century Bry-sur-Marne Kasie Alt (Georgia Southern University, USA)
II Dwelling, Garden, and the Poetic Image
3. Three Scenes from Wen Hengshans Album of Poems and Paintings of the
Garden of Artless Administration, 1533 Hongde Wu (Shanghai Jiao Tong
University, China) and Stanislaus Fung (Harvard University, USA)
4. The Gardens of Omar Khayyam: Poetic Botany between Khurasan and Kathmandu
Ivįn Szįntó (Eötvös Lorįnd University (ELTE), Hungary)
5. Finding Solace in Garden Memories: Osvald Siréns Life during World War II
Minna Törmä (University of Glasgow, UK)
III Moral Virtues and Poetic Virtues
6. Garden Practices, Quiet Virtues, and Understanding David Cooper
(Durham University, UK)
7. Gardens of Refuge, Innocence, and Toil Ian Kidd (University of
Nottingham, UK)
8. Withdrawal and Bewilderment Alasdair Forbes (University of Exeter, UK)
IV The Garden Retreat and Mortality
9. Popes Arcadia: Death Re-enchanted Yue Zhuang (University of Exeter,
UK)
10. The Garden at Prospect Cottage as Derek Jarman's Defence Michael
Charlesworth (University of Texas, USA)
An Afterword on Withdrawal Alasdair Forbes (University of Exeter, UK)
Index
Yue Zhuang is Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Art History and Visual Culture at the University of Exeter, UK.
Alasdair Forbes is a writer and gardener who teaches a course on gardens as places of meaning at the University of Exeter, UK.
Michael Charlesworth is Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, USA.
