Download or read book L Art de former les jardins modernes ou L art des jardins anglais written by Thomas Whately and published by Gérard Monfort. This book was released on 2005 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: François de Paule de Latapie, né à Bordeaux en 1739, fut secrétaire du baron de Secondat, fils de Montesquieu, et l'accompagna dans un voyage en Italie. A Naples, il connut l'ambassadeur d'Angleterre illiam. Hamilton, parcourut la Grande-Bretagne et fut enthousiasmé par ses jardins. Il visita Stowe, dont il rédigea une excellente description qui figure à la fin de sa traduction de l'ouvrage de Thomas Whately, LArt déformer les jardins modernes que nous rééditons aujourd'hui. Ce livre est, avec la Dissertation sur le jardinage de l'Orient de Chambers, le texte le plus riche sur les jardins irréguliers. Dans son introduction, le traducteur souligne les difficultés pour un Français, épris de la rigueur des jardins dessinés par Le Nôtre, de souscrire à ceux qui sont ordonnés selon les idées de Kent ; en effet, celui-ci, dès 1720, allait s'écarter des règles admises ; Latapie fait ressortir également l'influence des récits de voyageurs qui décrivaient les jardins chinois, comme Chambers ou le frère Attiret, sur la " méthode " anglaise. Whately (1728-1772) en tant que secrétaire de Lord Grenville, chancelier de l'Echiquier, eut la possibilité de fréquenter la fine fleur de l'aristocratie et par là même ses jardins. Son ouvrage adopte une approche qui s'apparente à celle d'un artiste : construisant son jardin comme un peintre une œuvre, il dessine une structure, des formes ; il est attentif aux couleurs, cherche à les harmoniser en fonction des saisons, soucieux d'effacer ce qui pourrait paraître convenu, artificiel ; on ne trouve plus chez lui cette volonté de dominer le paysage, qu'on sentait chez ses devanciers, mais il préfère utiliser les accidents du terrain, tous les éléments de la nature, les mettre en valeur, les souligner, les corriger parfois. Pour lui, la nature devient spectacle, elle est l'idéal devenu visible, elle est consolatrice parce qu'elle demeure indifférente aux vanités. Whately fut, comme ses contemporains, un fervent lecteur d'Horace, pour qui le jardin est un espace clos où se concentre et s'exprime le bonheur domestique. L'Angleterre alors se passionnait tant pour les jardins irréguliers que pour l'architecture gothique, voyant en eux l'image et le symbole de l'indépendance, le refus du pouvoir absolu ; la liberté faisait place au fatum. Le jardin est pour Whately une œuvre de séduction, qui non seulement implique la volonté de plaire, mais revendique sa place dans le monde. Ce pouvait aussi être une réponse aux questionnements métaphysiques, la possible fusion avec la nature permettant d'éviter la question de la finalité, devenue incertaine. La démarche de Whately préfigure celle de Werther. La lecture de L'Art de former les jardins modernes pourra être d'un grand profit tant pour ceux qui ont à créer des jardins, que pour les amateurs qui veulent comprendre comment s'ordonne un jardin irrégulier.

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Download or read book Yvain written by Chretien de Troyes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1987-09-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twelfth-century French poet Chrétien de Troyes is a major figure in European literature. His courtly romances fathered the Arthurian tradition and influenced countless other poets in England as well as on the continent. Yet because of the difficulty of capturing his swift-moving style in translation, English-speaking audiences are largely unfamiliar with the pleasures of reading his poems. Now, for the first time, an experienced translator of medieval verse who is himself a poet provides a translation of Chrétien’s major poem, Yvain, in verse that fully and satisfyingly captures the movement, the sense, and the spirit of the Old French original. Yvain is a courtly romance with a moral tenor; it is ironic and sometimes bawdy; the poetry is crisp and vivid. In addition, the psychological and the socio-historical perceptions of the poem are of profound literary and historical importance, for it evokes the emotions and the values of a flourishing, vibrant medieval past.

Download or read book Sexing the Citizen written by Judith Surkis and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did marriage come to be seen as the foundation and guarantee of social stability in Third Republic France? In Sexing the Citizen, Judith Surkis shows how masculine sexuality became central to the making of a republican social order. Marriage, Surkis argues, affirmed the citizen's masculinity, while also containing and controlling his desires. This ideal offered a specific response to the problems—individualism, democratization, and rapid technological and social change—associated with France's modernity. This rich, wide-ranging cultural and intellectual history provides important new insights into how concerns about sexuality shaped the Third Republic's pedagogical projects. Educators, political reformers, novelists, academics, and medical professionals enshrined marriage as the key to eliminating the risks of social and sexual deviance posed by men-especially adolescents, bachelors, bureaucrats, soldiers, and colonial subjects. Debates on education reform and venereal disease reveal how seriously the social policies of the Third Republic took the need to control the unstable aspects of male sexuality. Surkis's compelling analyses of republican moral philosophy and Emile Durkheim's sociology illustrate the cultural weight of these concerns and provide an original account of modern French thinking about society. More broadly, Sexing the Citizen illuminates how sexual norms continue to shape the meaning of citizenship.

Download or read book Reign of Virtue written by Miranda Pollard and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-07-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Reign of Virtue, Miranda Pollard explores the effects of military defeat and Nazi occupation on French articulations of gender in wartime France. Drawing on governmental archives, historical texts, and propaganda, Pollard explores what most historians have ignored: the many ways in which Vichy's politicians used gendered images of work, family, and sexuality to restore and maintain political and social order. She argues that Vichy wanted to return France to an illustrious and largely mythical past of harmony, where citizens all knew their places and fulfilled their responsibilities, where order prevailed. The National Revolution, according to Pollard, replaced the ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity with work, family, and fatherland, making the acceptance of traditional masculine and feminine roles a key priority. Pollard shows how Vichy's policies promoted the family as the most important social unit of a new France and elevated married mothers to a new social status even as their educational, employment, and reproductive rights were strictly curtailed.

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Download or read book What is Masculinity written by J. Arnold and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across history, the ideas and practices of male identity have varied much between time and place: masculinity proves to be a slippery concept, not available to all men, sometimes even applied to women. This book analyses the dynamics of 'masculinity' as both an ideology and lived experience - how men have tried, and failed, to be 'Real Men'.

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Download or read book Essai sur l art des jardins modernes written by Horace Walpole and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Il franchit la clôture et vit que toute la nature est jardin. " Dans son Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes, Horace Walpole - romancier, historien, et collectionneur du XVIIIe siècle nous offre une courte histoire de l'art des jardins. Radicalement opposé au jardin à la française - car la nature a horreur de la ligne droite -, Walpole fait l'éloge de la nouvelle esthétique du jardin anglais. Épris des rapports entre les détails des parterres fleuris et les vastes perspectives pittoresques, il nous révèle une nouvelle harmonie visuelle, qu'il réalisa dans ses jardins de Strawberry Hill. Pour Walpole, " créer un jardin, c'est peindre un paysage ".

Download or read book Theory of Garden Art written by Christian Cajus Lorenz Hirschfeld and published by Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture. This book was released on 2001 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His celebration of the natural world sprang from his intellectual roots in Enlightened rationalism, but rather than following the systematic scientific strategy of his forerunners, Hirschfeld formulated a more popular approach that appealed to both the emotions and the reason of his audience.

Download or read book L Art du jardin et son histoire written by John Dixon Hunt and published by Odile Jacob. This book was released on 1996-11-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La nature sauvage, que les anciens jugeaient horrible et tentaient de domestiquer par places, et que les modernes exaltent pour compenser le progressif bétonnage des sites, a toujours eu quelque chose d'abstrait et de mythique. Si elle existe comme concept, il est impossible de l'atteindre dans la réalité sans la transformer en spectacle. Entre elle et nous s'interpose au moins un regard, c'est-à-dire un principe d'organisation, la possibilité de comprendre, de décrire et de représenter. Même la forêt primaire d'Amazonie, vue d'avion, devient un monument paysager. Que dire alors de la forêt de Fontainebleau que nous parcourons en tous sens ! L'art du jardin - en particulier les paysages européens du XVIIIe et du XIXe siècles - relève ainsi d'une charmante ambiguïté : il faut décrire la représentation figurée comme si elle était nature et la nature comme si elle était représentation figurée ; il faut que la surprise naisse d'un ordre prévisible à peine perturbé, que l'émotion sensorielle vienne d'une éducation qu'on oublie. À travers les deux très belles conférences prononcées en mars 1994 par John Dixon Hunt, le Collège de France a voulu faire mieux connaître au public français l'intérêt de la réflexion historique sur les jardins et l'architecture paysagère, discipline au confluent de plusieurs domaines : ceux de l'urbanisme et de l'architecture, de la géographie et de l'écologie, de la peinture et de la littérature, de la sociologie et de la philosophie de la représentation, des ères culturelles et de l'histoire enfin, puisqu'il existe autant de paysages que de grandes civilisations et d'époques. Professeur à l'université de Pennsylvanie, John Dixon Hunt a notamment dirigé l'Institut d'architecture paysagère de Dumbarton Oaks, à Washington. Il est l'auteur de plusieurs ouvrages de référence sur l'art des jardins, dont The Figure in the Landscape (1989), d'une biographie de John Ruskin et d'une étude sur les préraphaélites. Il dirige depuis sa création, en 1980, la revue internationale Journal of Garden History.