The English Landscape Garden : Dreaming of Arcadia
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
071129092X
ISBN-13
9780711290921
Publisher
Quarto Publishing PLC
Imprint
Frances Lincoln
Country of Manufacture
CN
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 31st, 2024
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
2,114 grams
Dimensions
25.80 x 32.10 x 3.50 cms
Product Classification:
Gardens (descriptions, history etc)Landscape gardening
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The English Landscape Garden is a beautifully photographed celebration of the best of the 18th century English landscape garden – a quintessentially British art form that influenced the rest of the world.
Smooth lawns, glassy pools, cool garden temples, mysterious woodland glades, evocative statuary ... the 18th-century English landscape garden offers a transcendent vision of Arcadia, a world of rich escapism peopled by gods and goddesses, young lovers and dairymaids, poets and philosophers.
This sumptuous, beautifully photographed volume celebrates this quintessentially British creation, arguably its greatest artform, taking you on a tour of 20 of the finest surviving gardens, including:
This sumptuous, beautifully photographed volume celebrates this quintessentially British creation, arguably its greatest artform, taking you on a tour of 20 of the finest surviving gardens, including:
- Studley Royal (Yorkshire), a dreamy valley garden which culminates with a view down and across the ruins of a Cistercian abbey
- Stowe (Buckinghamshire), the great politically motivated garden of its day, boasting the ensemble masterpiece that is William Kent’s Elysian Fields
- Chiswick House (London), Lord Burlington’s experiment in neoclassical architecture
- Petworth (Sussex) – of ‘Capability’ Brown, who eschewed the symbolism of earlier generations but created instead his own powerful vision of pastoral Arcadia
- Hawkstone Park (Shropshire), designed to elicit a thrill of fear in visitors as they traverse rocky precipices and encounter live hermits
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