Zen Landscapes - Perspectives on Japanese Gardens and Ceramics

Zen Landscapes is the first in-depth study in the West to examine the correspondences between gardens and ceramics, suggesting new implications for theories of representation, arguing for the rightful place of ceramics among the fine arts and above all revealing original ways of seeing

About the author

Allen S. Weiss teaches in the departments of Performance Studies and Cinema Studies at New York University. He is the author and editor of over forty books in the fields of performance theory, landscape architecture, gastonomy, sound art and experimental theatre. Mirrors of Infinity: The French Formal Garden and 17th-century Metaphysics (1995), Feast and Folly: Cuisine, Intoxication, and the Poetics of the Sublime (2002), Varieties of Audio Mimesis: Musical Evocations of Landscape (2008) and, most recently, Zen Landscapes (Reaktion Books, 2013)

Summary

Zen Landscapes is the first in-depth study in the West to examine the correspondences between gardens and ceramics, suggesting new implications for theories of representation, arguing for the rightful place of ceramics among the fine arts and above all revealing original ways of seeing

Product details

• Authors: Allen Weiss, Allen S Weiss, Allen S. Weiss, Weiss Allen S.
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.09.2013
• EAN: 9781780231907
• ISBN: 978-1-78023-190-7
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 198 mm x 257 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Guides > Nature > Garden; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; GARDENING / Landscape, Landscape gardening