Author(s)

Pengxiang Zhang, Chaoran Yang and Yu Wu

Corresponding Author

Yu Wu

ABSTRACT

The psychological distance Buro proposed is a proposition with important theories value and practical meaning in the aesthetic field, which mainly claims that the aesthete should appreciate the object with disinterestedness, pure, and purposeless attitude. Such thought possesses inherent consistency with the spirit of Chinese aesthetic tradition, therefore, Chinese gardens classical, as a representative of a comprehensive art of time and space, it also presents psychological distance thought inevitably. This paper explores three approaches of realizing psychological distance in a classical garden and takes the classical master-of-the-nets garden as an example to demonstrate the approaches of realizing psychological distance in garden art.

KEYWORDS

Psychological distance, garden art, chinese classical garden, aesthetic disinterestednessIntroduction