Bartos, James (Art writer), author.

The ornamental wilderness in the English garden / James Bartos.

London : Unicorn Publishing Group, 2022.
©2022

296 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 x 20 cm

In this wide ranging and comprehensive survey of the designed landscapes of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, James Bartos argues convincingly that ornamental wildernesses should be viewed as distinctive design features which, when linked across an extensive terrain, took on the character of the whole landscape. As a result of this striking analysis, our understanding of the celebrated layouts at Wrest Park, Chiswick and Stowe, and many more besides, must be revised.0Contrary to the received wisdom that wildernesses led inexorably to the more informal parkscapes associated with William Kent and Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, it was only when they were dismantled in the mid-eighteenth century to provide more loosely controlled, open glades and greensward that the English Landscape Style emerged.0This ground-breaking study ranges in its literary compass from classical authors through contemporary writers on gardens and gardening to modern critical authorities, while its visual focus on design manuals and individual gardens and landscapes is presented through a wealth of engraved prints, maps and present day photographs. Bartos considers the making, planting and maintenance of wildernesses, their continental precedents, thematic resonances - Classical, Biblical, Druidic, Patriotic - and the eventual development of these often numinous spaces into mature gardens followed by their inevitable demise.

9781914414350 hardcover
1914414357 hardcover

Gardens, English History 17th century.
Gardens, English History 18th century.
Wilderness areas in art.
Jardins anglais Histoire 17e siècle.
Jardins anglais Histoire 18e siècle.
Réserves de la vie sauvage dans l'art.
Gardens, English

History

Location: Library main 317232
Call No.: 317232
Copy: 1
Status: Available