Bonsai: The Art of Living Sculpture - Hardcover

Douthitt, Jack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0847823202 ISBN 13: 9780847823208

Publisher: Rizzoli, 2001

Synopsis

Bonsai pays tribute to the artistry and design behind these fascinating miniature trees. The text compares the ancient art of bonsai to the traditional arts and focuses on the specific design elements of the bonsai--the roots, trunk, branches, foliage, and container--and discusses how bonsai artists manipulate these elements for a specific effect. Unlike the traditional arts, bonsai requires working with material that is alive and ever-changing, presenting unique challenges and rewards.

Featured are photographs from the most highly-regarded bonsai artists throughout the world. The bonsai photographed are not only the most popular pine, juniper, elm, and boxwood, but also the more exotic or colorful rhododendron, crabapple, wisteria, and bougainvillea. A useful reference section provides a list of public bonsai collections worlds.

About this title

About the Author:

Jack Douthitt has been a bonsai enthusiast for over thirty years. The former president of Bonsai Clubs International, he has served as a judge at bonsai exhibits and exhibited his own award-winning bonsai at various shows. Jack's bonsai appear in both the National Arboretum Collection of American Bonsai in Washington, D.C. and the Weyerhaeuser Pacific Rim Bonsai Collection in Tacoma, Washington. In 1987, he was named "One of America's Outstanding Bonsai Artists" by the National Bonsai Foundation.

Warren Hill is the supervisory museum curator of the National Bonsai and Penjing Museum at the U.S. National Arboretum in Washington, D.C.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rizzoli
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0847823202
• ISBN 13: 9780847823208
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 144