| Titre | Nature and ideology in Western descriptions of the chinese gardens | |
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| Auteur | Craig Clunas | |
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Revue | Extrême-Orient, Extrême-Occident |
| Numéro | no 22, 2000 L'art des jardins dans les pays sinisés. Chine, Japon, Corée, Vietnam | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | IV. L'Europe et les jardins chinois |
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| Page | 153-166 | |
| Résumé anglais |
Western views of the Chinese art of the garden have evolved, since the seventeenth century, in line with changing attitudes towards China as a whole. The sinophile inclinations of the Jesuits at the courts of Kangxi and Qianlong led to an admiration of the art of Chinese gardens as a better imitation of what was deemed « natural » than nature itself could provide. Later, the sinophobia of Macartney and the Europeans at the time of the Opium War tended to discredit the perverse tastes of the Chinese who tortured nature in their gardens just as they tortured the feet of their ladies in the women's apartments. Once the consolidation of British and Western ascendancy in China had alleviated anti-Chinese sentiments, the arts of China, including those of the garden, were revalued as the expression of a remarkable sense of nature, inveterate in a culture where a complete absence of evolution had allowed it to endure forever unchanged. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/oroc_0754-5010_2000_num_22_22_1124 |
