The Genius of the Place
The English Landscape Garden 1620-1820
A garden classic, The Genius of the Place reveals that the history of landscape gardening is much more than a history of design and style; it opens up a wide perspective of English cultural history, showing how landscape gardening was gradually transformed over two centuries into an art that has been widely imitated throughout Europe and North America. The English landscape garden is richly documented in this anthology. Over 100 illustrations accompany writings that range from Francis Bacon to Jane Austin; from the early 1600s, when Englishmen began to determine their own concept and form of the garden, through the first half of the eighteent…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Willis, Peter (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-262-58092-2
- EAN: 9780262580922
- Produktnummer: 1500987
- Verlag: MIT Press Ltd
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1988
- Seitenangabe: 412 S.
- Masse: H24.2 cm x B17.1 cm x D1.8 cm 918 g
- Gewicht: 918
- Sonstiges: Undergraduate
Über den Autor
John Dixon Hunt is Professor in the School of English and American Studies at the University of East Anglia and editor of the International Journal of Garden History.Peter Willis, an architect, is reader in the History of Architecture at the University of Newcastle.
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