Chinese Influence on European Garden Structures

Hacker Art Books, 1985 Reprint of Harvard University Press, 1936,

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Author

Von Erdberg Eleanor

Publishers

Hacker Art Books, 1985 Reprint of Harvard University Press, 1936

Keyword

China Art

Binding description

Dust jacket

State of preservation

As New

Binding

Hardcover

Inscribed

First edition

Description

Cloth. 4to - over 9æ" - 12" tall. Edited by Bremer W. Pond. pp.221, 94 b&w illustrations (mostly from old prints and engravings). Scholarly study of the history of Chinese influence on architectural elements in the garden during the 17th and 18th centuries. With an annotated list of buildings mentioned in the text. Styles of Chinoiserie; source of Knowledge of Chinese Architecture in the 18th Century; The Anglo-Chinese Garden; Designs for Garden Buildings; The Garden Buildings of the Exotic and of the Grotesque Styles; Architectural Details of the Exotic and of the Grotesque Styles; Evolution of the Imitative Style; Types and Details of the Imitative Style. Appendix, Bibliography, influenza della cina sui giardini europei.