Name/Title
Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape ArchitectureEntry/Object ID
2010.004.03Description
Essays that range from the cult of the picturesque to verbal-visual parallels within gardens, from allegorical imagery to landscape painting.
Contents: Castle Howard revisited -- Theaters, gardens, and garden theaters -- Emblem and expression in the eighteenth-century landscape garden -- Ut pictura poesis, ut pictura hortus, and the picturesque -- Sense and sensibility in the landscape designs of Humphry Repton -- Picturesque mirrors and the ruins of the past -- John Ruskin and the picturesque -- Ruskin, "Turnerian topography," and Genius loci -- French impressionist gardens and the ecological picturesque -- The picturesque legacy to modernist landscape architecture -- Postscript : gardens in Utopia : utopia in the garden.
xviii, 388 p. : ill., maps ; 27 cm. (softcover)Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation LibraryAcquisition
Accession
2010.004.Source or Donor
New Library Books Purchased (2010)Acquisition Method
PurchasedCredit Line
Restricted Book/Archives Acquisition Fund PurchaseLexicon
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BookNomenclature Sub-Class
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Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Gardens--Design--History, Gardens--History, Landscape architecture--History, Gardens, English--HistoryBook Details
Author
Hunt, John DixonPublisher
MIT PressDate Published
circa 1992Call No.
SB457.6 .H865 1992ISBN
026208211XLCCN
91036906Notes
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Category
PermanentDate
February 7, 2023General Notes
Note
Notes: By John Dixon Hunt.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-378) and index.Created By
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