Reading Zen in the rocks
Subtitle: the Japanese dry landscape garden
By: François Berthier ; translated and with a philosophical essay by Graham Parkes.
Contributors: Parkes, Graham, 1949-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Rock gardens, Japanese -- Zen influences; Rock gardens -- Japan -- Kyoto; Ryōanji Teien (Kyoto, Japan)
Work titles: Jardin du Ryōanji.
Description: "The Japanese dry landscape garden has long attracted - and long battled - 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 (dry landscape) garden by French art historian Francois Berthier, has now been translated by Graham Parkes, giving English-speaking readers a concise, thorough, illustrated history of these gardens."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 157-158) and index.