Borrowed Landscapes - China Japan in Historic Houses Gardens of Britain Ireland

A beautifully illustrated exploration of the impact of Chinese and Japanese material culture on the historic houses and gardens of Britain and Ireland. The European passion for Chinese and Japanese art and ornament has had a profound impact in the British Isles since the seventeenth century, and nowhere is this more evident than in the houses and gardens of the National Trust. Chinese and Japanese influences on country-house decor and garden design began with luxury imports, carefully tailored to Western fantasies and expectations. Domestic designers and artisans soon added their own fanciful interpretations of ''oriental'' art to the mix, traditionally known as chinoiserie and japonisme. Illustrated with a wealth of new photography, and filled with extraordinary, hitherto little-researched objects and environments, this engaging survey of orientalism in historic houses and gardens across England, Wales and Northern Ireland demonstrates how elements of Chinese and Japanese culture were both desired and misunderstood, treasured and dismembered, idealised and caricatured.>

Product details

• Authors: Emile de Bruijn
• Publisher: Wilson, Philip Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 12.10.2023
• EAN: 9781781300985
• ISBN: 978-1-78130-098-5
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 234 mm x 280 mm x 26 mm
• Series: National Trust; National Trust Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Landscape art & architecture, Orientalism, ART / History / General, ART / Asian / General, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, c 1500 onwards to present day, History of Art, United Kingdom, Great Britain, History of Architecture, History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Landscape architecture and design, Oriental art