Reading Zen in the Rocks: The Japanese Dry Landscape Garden

by François Berthier

Book Overview

The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted--and long baffled--viewers from the West. While museums across the United States are replicating these "Zen rock gardens" in their courtyards and miniature versions of the gardens are now office decorations, they remain enigmatic, their philosophical and aesthetic significance obscured. Reading Zen in the Rocks, the classic essay on the karesansui garden by French art historian Fran...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226044114
• ISBN13: 9780226044118
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

A great book to understand Zen spirit

It's a good book on the subject of Zen. It introduces the spirit of Zen in terms of the number and location of rocks. You can't miss it.