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Author | : John Dixon Hunt |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780262581318 |
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A collection of Hunt's essays, many previously unpublished, dealing with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes, especially with the ways in which gardens have represented the world of nature "picturesquely".
Author | : John Macarthur |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2013-03-07 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1134956975 |
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In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque – when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor – in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture. In a series of linked essays Macarthur shows: what the concept of picture does in the picturesque and how this relates to modern theories of the image how the distaste that might be felt today at the sentimentality of the picturesque was already at play in the eighteenth century how visual values such as ‘irregularity’ become the basis of modern architectural planning; how the concept of appropriating a view moves from landscape design into urban design why movement is fundamental to picturing the stillness of buildings, cities and landscapes. Drawing on examples from architecture, art and broader culture, John Macarthur's account of this key topic in cultural history, makes engaging reading for all those studying architecture, art history, cultural history or visual studies.
Author | : Valerie Derbyshire |
Publisher | : Vernon Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2019-12-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1622737466 |
Download The Picturesque, The Sublime, The Beautiful: Visual Artistry in the Works of Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book considers the relationships between British Romantic-era novelist, poet and writer of educational works for children, Charlotte Smith (1749-1806), and a number of visual artists of the eighteenth century with whom she had connections. By exploring these associations with artists such as George Smith of Chichester, George Romney, James Northcote, John Raphael Smith and Emma Smith, the book demonstrates how the artwork of these individual artists influenced Charlotte Smith’s literary corpus. It also shows a mutual influence: how the literary works of Charlotte Smith impacted the corpora of these artists. This study uncovers information which was not heretofore known regarding these artists: it reveals a mistaken attribution of a sketch which accompanied the second volume of Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets (1797) and sheds light on a print, held by the British Museum, which was previously shrouded in mystery. The artworks also enhance the existing scholarly knowledge about Smith’s biography. This book analyses the tropes and motifs employed by Smith’s artist-associates in the context of the popular aesthetics of the period and undertakes parallel readings between such visual artistry and Smith’s literary works. The book deliberates on how Smith utilises these aesthetics as narrative devices, making use of the tropes of the picturesque, the sublime and the beautiful, as well as that of a national British heraldic artwork, in order to produce and enhance meaning in her literary oeuvre. Thus, Smith uses aesthetic structures as vehicles for social critique, commentating on political, gender, moral and class concerns in addition to enhancing the perceived authenticity of her own artistry. The scholarship aims to correct the common misperception that Smith was a lonely marginal figure of Romanticism and instead asserts her central position in an enormous network of key artistic figures of British Romanticism.
Author | : Nikolaus Pevsner |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1606060015 |
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A previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner, much of which was published as journal articles in the Architectural Review in the 1940s and 1950s during Pevsner's term as editor.
Author | : John Dixon Hunt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Gardens |
ISBN | : 9780500285084 |
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The author traces the rise of the picturesque garden in England and throughout Europe, exploring intricate dialogues between practical place-making and the theoretical formulations of the picturesque. He surveys a wide range of sites - Rousham, Stourhead, Kew, Hestercombe, The Leasowes, Hafod, Ermenonville, Désert de Retz among others - and the contributions to their creation by both amateurs and professionals. The impact on European countries of the English example was complicated by the parallel rise of a picturesque garden in France, which had its own cultural direction even while it looked to England and China for inspiration. Finally, the book analyses and assesses the impact of English and French design upon other countries, in particular Sweden, the German-speaking lands and Russia.
Author | : Stephen Copley |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 1994-03-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521441137 |
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Essays on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ways of looking at landscape, in theory and practice.
Author | : Sidney K. Robinson |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 1991-08-13 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780226722511 |
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The aesthetic mode of the picturesque has undergone so many transformations since its initial discussion in eighteenth-century England that it is hard to say just what it is. In these probing essays, Sidney K. Robinson re-examines the picturesque in its late eighteenth-century phase.
Author | : Thos. D. Murphy |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2023-08-12 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3368370804 |
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Reproduction of the original.
Author | : Alexander M. Ross |
Publisher | : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0889206260 |
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"Despite the negative criticism directed at its sentiment, its heartlessness, its superficiality, the picturesque remained in both art and fiction of Victorian England a mode of seeing that even the greatest of the artists and novelists relied upon from time to time so that their viewers and readers could rejoice in the instant recognition of place and character distinctly limned and sometimes subtly enough to elicit sympathy" (Preface). After briefly tracing the development of the theory of the picturesque in the eighteenth-century writings of William Gilpin, Sir Uvedale Price, and Richard Payne Knight and examining how nineteenth-century novelists accommodated aesthetic theory to the practice of fiction, Ross focuses on the use of the picturesque in the works of Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. The persistence of the picturesque through novels ranging from Waverley to Jude the Obscure and in writers like Dickens and Eliot, who had little respect for its conventions, attests to its strength and attraction in nineteenth-century literature.
Author | : Charles Francis King |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : Geography, Juvenile |
ISBN | : |
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