Download or read book Place making written by John Phibbs and published by English Heritage. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716-1783) is the iconic figure at the head of the English landscape style, a tradition that has dominated landscape design in the western world. He was widely acclaimed for his genius in his own day and his influence on the culture of England has arguably been as great as that of Turner, Telford and Wordsworth. Yet, although Brown has had his biographers, his work has generated very little analysis. Brown was prolific; he has had a direct influence on half a million acres of England and Wales. The astonishing scale of his work means that he did not just transform the English countryside, but also our idea of what it is to be English and what England is. His work is everywhere, but goes largely unnoticed. His was such a naturalistic style that all his best work was mistaken for untouched nature. This has made it very difficult to see and understand. Visitors to Brown landscapes do not question the existence of the parkland he created and there has been little professional or academic analysis of his work. This book for the first time looks at the motivation behind Brown’s landscapes and questions their value and structure whilst at the same time placing him within the English landscape tradition. It aims primarily to make landscape legible, to show people where to stand, what to look at and how to see.

Download or read book Diary of a Scotch Gardener at the French Court at the End of the Eighteenth Century written by Thomas Blaikie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-11 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1931, the fascinating diary of the most fashionable garden designer in France in the late 1700s.

Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of Robert Hoe of New York written by Robert Hoe and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Experiencing the Garden in the Eighteenth Century written by Martin Calder and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together the papers presented at a conference entitled 'Experiencing the Garden in the Eighteenth Century', held at the Institute of Romance Studies, Senate House, University of London on 13 March 2004. Speakers came from Europe, the United States and New Zealand, and each gave a very different perspective on the eighteenth-century landscape garden in England, France and elsewhere in Europe. The papers focused on the theme of experience, an especially important aspect of eighteenth-century garden design. Landscape gardens were created for visitors to move through on a journey from one place to the next: the garden would not be seen all at once, but would be experienced as a story unfolding. The visitor would follow a circuit around the garden, moving from light to shade, being given suggestive prompts with statues, temples and viewpoints, as if on a sensory, emotional and intellectual journey.

Download or read book Seeds of a Different Eden written by Yu Liu and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeds of a Different Eden is a pathbreaking multidisciplinary study of the influence of Chinese gardening concepts on the English landscaping revolution of the early eighteenth century and the resulting germination of new theories of beauty and art, which took form in the works of Alexander Pope, Joseph Addison, and Lord Shaftesbury and culminated in the aesthetic revolution of Immanuel Kant.

Download or read book Essai Sur l Art Des Jardins Modernes Par M Horace Walpole Traduit En Francois sic Par M Le Duc de Nivernois En MDCCLXXXIV written by Horace Walpole and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Medical theory and practice of the 1700s developed rapidly, as is evidenced by the extensive collection, which includes descriptions of diseases, their conditions, and treatments. Books on science and technology, agriculture, military technology, natural philosophy, even cookbooks, are all contained here. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T145371 Additional titlepage: 'Essay on modern gardening, by Mr. Horace Walpole'. Parallel English and French texts. An edition of 400 copies was printed. Even numbers on rectos. [Twickenham]: Imprimé à Strawberry-Hill, par T. Kirgate, 1785. [3],94, [1]p., plate: ill., port.; 4°

Download or read book The theory and practice of gardening written by A.D. d'Argenville and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The theory and practice of gardening: wherein is fully handled all that relates to fine gardens, commonly called pleasure-gardens, confiting of Parterres, Groves, Bowling-Green.

Download or read book The Picturesque Garden in France written by Dora Wiebenson and published by Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Description for this book, The Picturesque Garden in France, will be forthcoming.

Download or read book The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walpole captured the attention of his 18th-century audience with his memorable turns of phrase and, more importantly, for his claim that England had invented a modern and "natural" style of laying out gardens - a style that was, indeed, the culmination of garden design.

Download or read book Observations on Modern Gardening written by Thomas Whately and published by . This book was released on 1770 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Ichnographia Rustica Or The Nobleman Gentleman and Gardener s Recreation written by Stephen Switzer and published by . This book was released on 1718 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essay on modern gardening Essai sur l art des jardins modernes trad en fran ais par M Le Duc de Nivernois written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 1785 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Polite Landscapes written by Tom Williamson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parks and gardens in eighteenth-century England are usually seen as works of art created by individual geniuses like William Kent, Capability Brown and Humphry Repton. But this narrow view wasn't necessarily shared by contemporaries, and Tom Williamson in this thought-provoking book reveals that the aristocracy and gentry, who paid for these private landscapes and lived in them, were motivated by more complex interests and needs. Landowners had strong ideas of their own about how their property should look and how it should function. The park and garden were part of a working estate consisting of farms and forestry enterprises, and the surroundings of the country house were shaped to suit the requirements of hunting, shooting, riding and other recreational activities as well as to conform to the aesthetic principles of philosophers and landscape gardeners. Tom Williamson's pioneering study concentrates on the wider social, economic and political implications of these elaborate private landscapes. He emphasizes the practical relationship between the landowners who were demanding customers and the designers who were businessmen as well as artists. In the process he shows how changing fashions in the layout of gentlemen's pleasure grounds were related to broader currents of social and economic development in eighteenth-century England.

Download or read book First Garden Book written by Thomas Hill and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: