The Huntington Library and Botanical Gardens
The Center for East Asian Garden Studies presents:
The Making of a Medium: Borrowing Views from Painting and Fiction in Early Modern Chinese Garden Design
Thursday, Feb. 20, 7:30 p.m.
Rothenberg Hall
Free; no reservations required.
S. E. Kile, assistant professor of Chinese literature at the University of Michigan, examines the first two Chinese works that considered garden design as an art: Ji Cheng's Yuanye (Fashioning Gardens, 1631–34) and Li Yu's Xianqing ouji (Leisure Notes, 1671).
By excavating the garden's relationship to other art forms, Kile presents an account of the garden as a medium of artistic expression in early modern China.
