‘Leaping the fence’

 Transitions Between Garden and Landscape in Chinese and European Garden traditions

18-20th April 2008 at Burwalls, University of Bristol

Programme

Saturday 19 April

9.15 Welcome

Chair: Stephen Bann (Bristol)

9.30 – 10.15

Denis Ribouillault (Courtauld)

Looking and Moving in the Landscape of Renaissance Rome

10-15 – 11.00

Wang Yi (Dumbarton Oaks/Chinese Academy of Social Science)

The Relationship of Chinese Landscape Art and Wood-block Art

from the late 16th century to the early 17th century   

11.00 – 11.30 COFFEE

11.30 – 12.15

Alison Hardie (Leeds)

The garden owner as farming hermit:

The ‘pastoral’ poetry of Ruan Dacheng (1587-1646)  

12.15 – 13.00

Henry Power (Exeter)

‘A table rase and pure’: The poetic landscape of the English Civil War

13.00 – 14.30 LUNCH

14.30 – 15.30

Chair: Stephen West (Arizona)

Jiang Bo (Dumbarton Oaks/ Chinese Institute of Archaeology)

The ‘Made’ Nature: a perspective on Tang Gardens

Xin Wu (Dumbarton Oaks/Bristol)

Landscape Tours and Garden Scenes at Yuelu Academy: 12th and 18th century

15.30 – 16.00 TEA

16.00 – 17.30

DISCUSSION

Chair: Craig Clunas (Oxford)

Sunday 20 April

Chair: Timothy Mowl (Bristol)

9.30 – 10.15

Malcolm Andrews (Kent)

Wilderness as Garden: The Picturesque and domestication of landscape

10.15 – 11.00

David Hays (Dumbarton Oaks/Illinois Champaign-Urbana)

Above, Beyond and Between: Spanning the Natural Divide at Cardada

11.00 – 11.30 COFFEE

11.30 – 12.15

Stephen Bann (Bristol)

‘Little fields Long Horizons’: the poetic prelude to Ian Hamilton Finlay’s gardens

12.15 – 13.00

Erik de Jong (Wageningen)

Creation at Teardrop Park:

A recent design by Michael van Valkenburg Associates, New York City, 2004

13.00 – 14.30 LUNCH

14.30 – 16.00

CONCLUDING DISCUSSION

Chair: Michel Conan (Dumbarton Oaks)

 To register see www.bicc.ac.uk or e-mail Daniel.holloway@area.ox.ac.uk

The support is acknowledged of: Dumbarton Oaks (Garden and Landscape Studies section); BIRTHA (Bristol Institute for Research in the Arts and Humanities), Institute for Garden and Landscape History (University of Bristol and Hestercombe Garden Trust), BICC (British Inter-university China Centre) and the Bristol Institute of Greece, Rome, and the Classical Tradition.