Place-making for the imagination : Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill / Marion Harney.

Main entry:

Harney, Marion.

Title & Author:

Place-making for the imagination : Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill / Marion Harney.

Publication:

Description:

xviii, 308 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-295) and index.
Preface. Walpole moves from Strawberry Hill to Connecticut -- Introduction. 'Things come to light' : experiment and experience : the philosophical and cultural context -- 'The pleasures of the imagination' : tropes of taste -- 'Giving an idea of the spirit of the times' : anecdotes and antiquarianism -- 'I am going to build a little Gothic castle at Strawberry Hill' : creation of a seat, part 1 -- 'The art of creating landscape' : creation of a seat, part 2 -- Epilogue. 'A genius is original, invents. Taste selects, perhaps copies with judgement'

Summary:

Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century "Gothic" villa and garden beside the River Thames, is an autobiographical site, where we can read the story of its creator, Horace Walpole. This beautifully illustrated book reveals the Gothic villa and associated landscape to be inspired by theories that stiumlate. 'The Pleasure of the Imagiation' articulated in the series of essays by Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719) published in the Spectator (1712). Linked to this argument, it proposes that the concepts behind the designs for Strawberry Hill are nto based around architectural precedent but around eighteenth-century aesthetics theories, antiquarianism and matters of "Taste."

ISBN:

9781409470045 (hardback ; alk. paper)
1409470040 (hardback ; alk. paper)
(ebk-PDF)
9781409470052
(ebk-ePUB)
9781409470069
1409470059 (PDF ebook)
9781409470052 (PDF ebook)
1409470067 (ePub ebook)
9781409470069 (ePub ebook)

Subject:

Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 Aesthetics.
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 Homes and haunts England London.
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, Londres, Angleterre)
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Aesthetics, British 18th century.
Esthétique britannique 18e siècle.
Aesthetics.
Aesthetics, British.
Buildings.
Homes.
Twickenham (London, England) Buildings, structures, etc.
England London.
England Richmond upon Thames Twickenham.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 291019
Call No.: BIB 234310
Status: Available

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