Rogger, André.

Landscapes of taste : the art of Humphry Repton's Red books / André Rogger.

New York : Routledge, 2007.

284 pages : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm.

The classical tradition in architecture

"Humphry Repton's Red Books have long been the subject of scholarly interest for their unique contribution to British landscape discourse around 1800. Illustrated with Repton's own watercolours, the notorious Red Book manuscripts were used to suggest improvements to family estates all over England, Scotland and Wales." "Through detailed analysis of Repton's working practices, Andre Rogger argues that the landscape gardener's main artistic achievement is in the text-and-image concept of his Red Books, rather than in his ground as finally executed. Instead of using individual volumes as a document for reconstructing a particular commission, as previous Repton studies have done, the author presents the Red Books as artefacts in their own right, examining their creative potential as an entirely new genre of landscape appraisal. Linking key issues from nearly all of the surviving volumes, Rogger demonstrates that the Red Books are indebted as much to eighteenth-century travel accounts and drawing instruction manuals as they are to the theory of gardening."--BOOK JACKET.

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Localisation: Bibliothèque main 257419
Cote: BIB 187912
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