Irregularity, Grottoes, and Plants: Recontextualizing the Chinese Elements in the English Landscape Gardens

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dc.contributor.advisorCharlesworth, Michael
dc.creatorShen, Yu
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-03T18:08:13Z
dc.date.available2020-06-03T18:08:13Z
dc.date.issued2020-05
dc.description.abstractn the first half of the eighteenth century, England experienced a drastic change in its horticultural ideas and design. As the translation of Confucianism, Chinese art, and engravings of Chinese gardens gradually travelled to England, writers and architects by then believed that “Chinese garden was a faithful reproduction of nature,” which provoked a trend of applying Chinese designs to English landscape gardens to represent nature closely. By further examining the specific Chinese elements: grottoes, plants, and the irregularity that had been applied to the English landscape gardens, this thesis argues that the specific elements which were “misread” and embedded the most representative “naturalness” adapted in the English gardens, were not installed for the close imitation or presentation of nature in their original context in China. Instead, through reviewing the Chinese context and journeying in the history and specific cases of Chinese gardens, we are able to see how the original intents pertinent to the three elements function as the suggestion of “the spirit peculiar to the manifold creation of the external world.”en_US
dc.description.departmentArt and Art Historyen_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2152/81478
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.26153/tsw/8486
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.relation.ispartofHonors Thesesen_US
dc.rights.restrictionOpenen_US
dc.subjectChinese gardenen_US
dc.subjectEnglish landscape gardenen_US
dc.subjectgardening arten_US
dc.titleIrregularity, Grottoes, and Plants: Recontextualizing the Chinese Elements in the English Landscape Gardensen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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