Gardens and the picturesque : studies in the history of landscape architecture

Author

Hunt, John Dixon

Document type

Livre

Language

English

Source

ill.; plans; bibliogr. ref.; index ; xviii, 388 p. ; 1992

ISBN

0-262-08211-X

Publisher

MIT Press, Cambridge, MA (usa)

Publication country

United States

Abstract (en)

Collection of essays which offer analyses of various moments in garden history, and specifically of the relationship of gardens, garden design, and garden theory to various cultural phenomena, including the cult of the picturesque, traditions of verbal-visual parallels, allegorical imagery and other languages of description, landscape painting and paintings of gardens. Looks at gardens from the 18th c. to the present, primarily in England.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Architecture -- Gardens -- United Kingdom
• Gardens
• Great Britain
• 1700-2000
• Picturesque
• Allegory
• Landscape
• Painting
• Landscape architecture

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Architecture -- Jardins -- Royaume-Uni
• Jardin
• Grande-Bretagne
• 1700-2000
• Pittoresque
• Allégorie
• Paysage
• Peinture
• Paysagisme

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19940701-00344921

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