[Keswick] shows, in a complex and even exhilarating argument, how
the gardens are contrived with enormous subtlety to look like
accidental snatches of nature.
ÝKeswick¨ shows, in a complex and even exhilarating argument, how
the gardens are contrived with enormous subtlety to look like
accidental snatches of nature.
After reading Maggie Keswick's sensitive study one is tempted to
run off to Suzhou using "The Chinese Garden" as a spiritual
guidebook.
Chinese gardens are high among the wonders of Chinese art, but they
do not receive the attention they deserve...The late Maggie
Keswick's well-received original volume of the same title was a
"tour-de-force" of insight, which this update enhances. -- J. O.
Caswell "Choice" (11/01/2003)
Twenty-five years ago, at the prompting of her husband, Charles
Jencks, British designer Maggie Keswick set about explaining to
Western readers the ancient logic and symbolism of Chinese gardens.
She did it with rare empathy. The only child of Sir John Keswick,
chairman of a trading company with roots in the Orient going back
to the Opium Wars, she had spent much of her childhood in and out
of China. "The Chinese Garden" was so enlightening it was
reissued...giving Keswick a crack at a new generation...Her
introduction to this strange and beautiful world was so good, her
touch so light, one could only nod, smile and turn the page for a
fresh delight.
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