Author: Sir Uvedale PricePublisher:
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Category : Gardeners
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Letters of Uvedale Price
Author: Sir Uvedale PricePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardeners
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Sir Uvedale Price on the Picturesque: with an essay on the origin of taste, and much original matter, by Sir T. D. Lauder, Bart., and sixty illustrations ... by M. Stanley
Author: Sir Uvedale PricePublisher:
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Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
A letter to Uvedale Price, Esq., [by] H. Repton, A letter to H. Repton, Esq. A dialogue on the distinct characters of the picturesque and the beautiful ... prefaced by an introductory essay on beauty
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Author: Sir Uvedale PricePublisher:
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Category : Landscape gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A Letter to Uvedale Price, Esq., ... on his plan of reform without reconstruction
Author: Arthur Hill TREVOR (3rd Viscount Dungannon.)Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Uvedale Price (1747-1829)
Author: C. WatkinsPublisher: Boydell Press
ISBN: 1843837080
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
The first biography of the 18th-century landscape gardener, Uvedale Price, showing the key interconnections between his roles as landowner, art collector, forester, landscaper, connoisseur and scholar. Uvedale Price achieved most fame as the author of the influential Essay on the Picturesque of 1794 in which he argued that the work of the greatest landscape artists, such as Salvator Rosa, Rubens and Claude, should be usedas models for the "improvement of real landscape". His attack on the smooth certainties of Capability Brown sparked off a public controversy, drawing in Richard Payne Knight and Humphry Repton, which became a cause célèbre. This is the first biography of Uvedale Price, bringing out his contradictory and elusive character and revealing an astonishing cast of friends and acquaintances, including Gainsborough, Voltaire, William Wordsworth and ElizabethBarrett Browning. The book shows how he developed his ideas through practical experimentation on his own land and buildings and provides an understanding of the context of Price's practices and theories and the key interconnections between his roles as landowner, art collector, forester, landscaper, connoisseur and scholar. CHARLES WATKINS is Professor of Rural Geography, University of Nottingham; BEN COWELL is Assistant Director, External Affairs, National Trust.
Sir Uvedale Price, On the Picturesque
Author: Sir Uvedale PricePublisher: Edinburgh : Caldwell, Lloyd, and Company ; London : Wm. S. Orr and Company
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 620
Book Description
The Collected Letters of Sir George and Lady Beaumont to the Wordsworth Family, 1803–1829
Author: Jessica FayPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800858655
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Sir George Beaumont is a key figure in the history of British art. As well as being a respected amateur landscape painter, he was a prominent patron, a collector, and co-founder of the National Gallery. William Wordsworth described Beaumont’s friendship as one of the chief blessings of his life, and this edition reveals that the two men became collaborators as well as companions. In addition to documenting unique perspectives on social, political, and cultural events of the early nineteenth century (providing new contexts for reading Wordsworth’s mature poetry), the letters collected here chart the progress of an increasingly intimate inter-familial relationship. The picture that emerges is of a coterie that – in influence, creativity, and affection – rivals Wordsworth’s more famous exchange with Coleridge at Nether Stowey in the 1790s. The edition includes an extended study of how Wordsworth and Beaumont helped shape one another’s work, tracing processes of mutual artistic development that involved not only a meeting of aristocratic refinement and rural simplicity, of a socialite and a lover of retirement, of a painter and a poet, but also an aesthetic rapprochement between neoclassical and romantic values, between the impulse to idealize and the desire to particularize.
The British Aesthetic Tradition
Author: Timothy M. CostelloePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139618989
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The British Aesthetic Tradition: From Shaftesbury to Wittgenstein is the first single volume to offer readers a comprehensive and systematic history of aesthetics in Britain from its inception in the early eighteenth century to major developments in Britain and beyond in the late twentieth century. The book consists of an introduction and eight chapters, and is divided into three parts. The first part, The Age of Taste, covers the eighteenth-century approaches of internal sense theorists, imagination theorists and associationists. The second, The Age of Romanticism, takes readers from debates over the picturesque through British Romanticism to late Victorian criticism. The third, The Age of Analysis, covers early twentieth-century theories of Formalism and Expressionism to conclude with Wittgenstein and a number of views inspired by his thought.
Trees, Woods and Forests
Author: Charles WatkinsPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1780234155
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Forests—and the trees within them—have always been a central resource for the development of technology, culture, and the expansion of humans as a species. Examining and challenging our historical and modern attitudes toward wooded environments, this engaging book explores how our understanding of forests has transformed in recent years and how it fits in our continuing anxiety about our impact on the natural world. Drawing on the most recent work of historians, ecologist geographers, botanists, and forestry professionals, Charles Watkins reveals how established ideas about trees—such as the spread of continuous dense forests across the whole of Europe after the Ice Age—have been questioned and even overturned by archaeological and historical research. He shows how concern over woodland loss in Europe is not well founded—especially while tropical forests elsewhere continue to be cleared—and he unpicks the variety of values and meanings different societies have ascribed to the arboreal. Altogether, he provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary overview of humankind’s interaction with this abused but valuable resource.
The Sound of the English Picturesque
Author: Stephen GrovesPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000985911
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Revealing the connections between the veneration of national landscape and eighteenth- century English vocal music, this study restores English music’s relationship with the picturesque. In the eighteenth century, the emerging taste for the picturesque was central to British aesthetics, as poets and painters gained popularity by glorifying the local landscape in works concurrent with the emergence of native countryside tourism. Yet English music was seldom discussed as a medium for conveying national scenic beauty. Stephen Groves explores this gap, and shows how secular song, the glee, and national theatre music expressed a uniquely English engagement with landscape. Using an interdisciplinary approach, Groves addresses the apparent ‘silence’ of the English picturesque. The book draws on analysis of the visualisations present in the texts of English vocal music, and their musical treatment, to demonstrate how local composers incorporated celebrations of landscape into their works. The final chapter shows that the English picturesque was a crucial influence on Joseph Haydn’s oratorio The Seasons. Suitable for anyone with an interest in eighteenth- century music, aesthetics, and the natural environment, this book will appeal to a wide range of specialists and non- specialists alike.