Main entry:

Bermingham, Ann Cathleen.

Title & Author:

Landscape and ideology : the English rustic tradition, 1740-1850 / Ann Bermingham.

Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1986.

Description:

xviii, 254 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240) and index.
1. The state and estate of nature. The landscape garden ; The outdoor conversation piece ; Gainsborough's rustic landscapes -- 2. The picturesque decade. The example of Gainsborough ; Theories of the picturesque ; The politics of the picturesque ; The popularization of the picturesque -- 3. Mapping the self: Constable/country. The patria ; The picturesque legacy ; "A natural painture" ; Nature and the oil sketch ; The six-footers ; A "change of weather and effect" -- 4. Middle grounds and middle ways: the Victorian suburban experience of landscape. Terra Cognita ; The "town pilgrim of nature" ; The spectacle and the specimen ; The rustic stage.

ISBN:

0520052870 (alk. paper)
9780520052871 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Landscape painting, English.
Landscape painting, English 18th century.
Landscape painting, English 19th century.
Picturesque, The, in art.
Landscape painting, British.
Landscape painting 18th century.
Landscape painting 19th century.
Peinture de paysages anglaise.
Peinture de paysages anglaise 18e siècle.
Peinture de paysages anglaise 19e siècle.
Pittoresque dans l'art.
Peinture de paysages britannique.
Peinture de paysages 18e siècle.
Peinture de paysages 19e siècle.
Landscape painting.
Landscape painting 18th century England.
Landscape painting 19th century England

Holdings:

Location: Library main 1121
Call No.: ID:87-B1917
Status: Available