Keane, Marc P(eter) 1958-
KEANE, Marc P(eter) 1958-
PERSONAL: Born January 11, 1958, in New York, NY. Education: Cornell University, B.S., 1979.
ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o Author Mail, Tuttle Publishing, 153 Milk St., Boston, MA 02109. E-mail—mpk@ kta.att.ne.jp.
CAREER: Garden designer and writer in Kyoto, Japan. Also designer of installation art work.
MEMBER: Kyoto Mitate (historic preservation society; chair, 1996—).
AWARDS, HONORS: Grand prize, Kyoto Arts Festival, 2000, for an installation piece titled "Omega Point."
WRITINGS:
Japanese Garden Design, photographs by Ohashi Haruzo, Tuttle Publishing (Boston, MA), 1996.
(With Jiro Takei) Sakuteiki (nonfiction), Tuttle Publishing (Boston, MA), 2000.
The Art of Setting Stones, Stone Bridge Press (Berkeley, CA), 2002.
Contributor to periodicals, including Kyoto Journal, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society, Architecture, Gardens Illustrated, Resurgence, and Landscape Architecture.
WORK IN PROGRESS: Karesansui, an accurate history of the development and meaning of stone and sand gardens in Japan; Chaniwa, an accurate history of the development and meaning of Japanese tea gardens; The Fishkill Mysteries, "a novel of compassion seen through the landscape"; contributions to The Oxford Companion to Gardens, publication by Oxford University Press expected in 2005.
SIDELIGHTS: Marc P. Keane told CA: "I am an American garden designer, but I have lived for nearly twenty years in Japan. I write about Japanese gardens in many ways—essays, scholarly books, magazine and journal articles. I also write novels and short stories that draw inspiration from the landscape."
BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:
PERIODICALS
Booklist, April 1, 1997, Alice Joyce, review of Japanese Garden Design, p. 1274.
Horticulture: Art of American Gardening, April, 1998, Gordon Hayward, review of Japanese Garden Design, p. 78.
Library Journal, June 1, 1997, Phillip Oliver, review of Japanese Garden Design, p. 128.