This book analyses links among the Chinese concept of jingjie, the picturesque movement in European aesthetics, and site-specificity in 1960s Land Art. Jingjie was fundamental to the spatial fluidity found in Chinese landscape arts, especially garden design. After demonstrating how Chinese gardens influenced English landscape garden principles and the 18th-century European picturesque movement, this book argue that similar East-West connections served as direct and indirect influences on the site-specific work of middle and late 20th-century Land Art artists. This book then ...