Author: Humphry ReptonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landscape architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
A Letter to Uvedale Price, Esq
Author: Humphry ReptonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Landscape architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 20
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:
ISBN:
Category : Landscape gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 420
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:
ISBN:
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The British Aesthetic Tradition
Author: Timothy M. CostelloePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139618989
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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.
Letters of Uvedale Price
Author: Sir Uvedale PricePublisher:
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Category : Gardeners
Languages : en
Pages : 412
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.
A History of Gardening in England
Author: Mrs. Evelyn CecilPublisher:
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Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 520
Book Description
Bibliotheca Herefordiensis
Author: John AllenPublisher:
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Category : Herefordshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
History of Architectural Theory
Author: Hanno-Walter KruftPublisher: Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN: 9781568980102
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
As the first comprehensive encyclopedic survey of Western architectural theory from Vitruvius to the present, this book is an essential resource for architects, students, teachers, historians, and theorists. Using only original sources, Kruft has undertaken the monumental task of researching, organizing, and analyzing the significant statements put forth by architectural theorists over the last two thousand years. The result is a text that is authoritative and complete, easy to read without being reductive.
What Gardens Mean
Author: Stephanie RossPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226728070
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In What Gardens Mean, Stephanie Ross draws on philosophy as well as the histories of art, gardens, culture, and ideas to explore the magical lure of gardens. Paying special attention to the amazing landscape gardens of eighteenth-century England, she situates gardening among the other fine arts, documenting the complex messages gardens can convey and tracing various connections between gardens and the art of painting. What Gardens Mean offers a distinctive blend of historical and contemporary material, ranging from extensive accounts of famous eighteenth-century gardens to incisive connections with present-day philosophical debates. And while Ross examines aesthetic writings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including Joseph Addison’s Spectator essays on the pleasures of imagination, the book’s opening chapter surveys more recent theories about the nature and boundaries of art. She also considers gardens on their own terms, following changes in garden style, analyzing the phenomenal experience of viewing or strolling through a garden, and challenging the claim that the art of gardening is now a dead one. (ed.)