The Garden Retreat in Asia and Europe
Ways of Dwelling in a Torn World
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 23 July 2026
- ISBN 9781350447424
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
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- Illustrations 34 bw illus & 10 color illus 700
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Short description:
Explores the meaning of gardens and designed landscapes as places of retreat and refuge in times of need or emergency.
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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.
Table of Contents:
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. Daguerre's '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 Hengshan's 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 - Ivï¿1⁄2n Szï¿1⁄2ntï¿1⁄2 (Eï¿1⁄2tvï¿1⁄2s Lorï¿1⁄2nd University (ELTE), Hungary)
5. Finding Solace in Garden Memories: Osvald Sirï¿1⁄2n's Life during World War II - Minna Tï¿1⁄2rmï¿1⁄2 (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. Pope's 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)
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