The Art of Setting Stones: And Other Writings from the Japanese Garden
Autor Marc Peter Keaneen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2002
Marc Peter Keane has lived in Kyoto for 17 years and is author of Japanese Garden Design. He designs residential, company, and temple gardens.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1880656701
Pagini: 154
Ilustrații: 8 B&W illustrations
Dimensiuni: 153 x 223 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.24 kg
Editura: Stone Bridge Press
Notă biografică
Marc Peter Keane: Marc Peter Keane, a graduate of Cornell
University, is an American landscape architect and author. He has lived in
Kyoto, Japan, for over 20 years and specializes in Japanese garden design.
He is the author of several books about garden design: Japanese Garden
Design (an introduction to the culture and design of Japanese gardens); Sakuteiki:
Visions of the Japanese Garden (a translation of Japan's oldest gardening
text, co-authored with Prof. Jiro Takei), The Art of Setting Stones (a
collection of philosophical essays on gardens), and The Japanese Tea Garden(history and aesthetics of Japanese tea gardens).
Keane is a fellow at the Research Center for Japanese Garden Art in Kyoto, the
East Asia Program at Cornell University, and the Institute for Medieval
Japanese Studies at Columbia University. He has lectured widely throughout the
United States, England, and Japan.
Keane also acted as chairman of Kyoto Mitate International for many years, a
non-profit organization that worked to revitalize Kyoto's traditional
environments and cultural heritage.