An English Arcadia : landscape and architecture in Britain and America : [papers delivered at a Huntington symposium / Harriet Ritvo [and others].

Title & Author:

An English Arcadia : landscape and architecture in Britain and America : [papers delivered at a Huntington symposium / Harriet Ritvo [and others].

Publication:

Description:

pages 363-534 : illustrations ; 24 cm

Series:

Huntington Library Quarterly ; v.55, no.3 (summer 1992)

Notes:
"Simultaneous publication in the Huntington Library Quarterly, volume 55:3 (summer 1992)"--Title page verso.
Held October 26-27, 1991.
"Simultaneous publication in the Huntington Library Quarterly, volume 55:3 (summer 1992)"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references.
At the edge of the garden : nature and domestication in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain / Harriet Ritvo -- Re-reading the eighteenth-century English landscape garden / Stephen Bending -- Appropriation and adaptation : early gardening literature in America / Therese O'Malley -- Love and death across an English garden : Constable's paintings of his family's flower and kitchen gardens / Stephen Daniels -- Politics and the English landscape since the First World War / Peter Mandler -- The case study of Stowe. The moving temples of Stowe : aesthetics of change in an English landscape over four generations / George Clarke -- Discoveries, challenges, and moral dilemmas in the restoration of the garden buildings at Stowe / Peter Inskip -- The park and garden survey at Stowe : the replanting and restoration of the historical landscape / Richard Wheeler.

Summary:

Essays presented at the symposium "An English Arcadia: landscape and architecture in Britain and America" held at the Huntington on 26 and 27 October 1991, in conjunction with an exhibition "An English Arcadia, 1600-1990: designs for gardens and garden buildings in the care of the British National Trust".

ISBN:

087328139X
9780873281393

Subject:

Landscape architecture Great Britain History Congresses.
Gardens Great Britain History Congresses.
Gardens, English History Congresses.
Horticultural literature United States History Congresses.
Landscapes Great Britain Congresses.
Gardens in art Congresses.
Jardins anglais Histoire Congrès.
Horticulture Documentation États-Unis Histoire Congrès.
Paysages Grande-Bretagne Congrès.
Jardins dans l'art Congrès.
Gardens in art
Gardens
Gardens, English
Horticultural literature
Landscape architecture
Landscapes
Landscape Great Britain Congresses.
Stowe Gardens (England) History Congresses.
Stowe Gardens (Angleterre) Histoire Congrès.
England Stowe Gardens
Great Britain
United States

Form/genre:

Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Ritvo, Harriet, 1946-
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery.
Huntington Library quarterly ; v. 55, no. 3 (summer 1992)

Holdings:

Location: Library main 92745
Call No.: ID:93-B725
Status: Available

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