Entrée principale:

Hunt, John Dixon.

Titre et auteur:

Gardens and the picturesque : studies in the history of landscape architecture / John Dixon Hunt.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1992.

Description:

xviii, 388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-378) and index.
Castle Howard revisited -- Theaters, gardens, and garden theaters -- Emblem and expression in the eighteenth-century landscape garden -- Ut pictura poesis, ut pictura hortus, and the picturesque -- Sense and sensibility in the landscape designs of Humphry Repton -- Picturesque mirrors and the ruins of the past -- John Ruskin and the picturesque -- Ruskin, "Turnerian topography," and Genius loci -- French impressionist gardens and the ecological picturesque -- The picturesque legacy to modernist landscape architecture -- Postscript : gardens in Utopia : utopia in the garden.
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Résumé:

A collection of Hunt's essays, many previously unpublished, dealing with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes, especially with the ways in which gardens have represented the world of nature "picturesquely".

Ressources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

026208211X
9780262082112
0262581310
9780262581318

Sujet:

Gardens, English History.
Gardens Design History.
Gardens History.
Landscape architecture History.
Picturesque, The.
Jardins anglais Histoire.
Jardins Architecture Histoire.
Jardins Histoire.
Architecture du paysage Histoire.
Pittoresque.
Gardens.
Gardens Design.
Gardens, English.
Landscape architecture.
Tuinarchitectuur.
Jardins (arquitetura paisagistica)
Gardens Landscape design History
tuinen
ontwerp
design
geschiedenis
history
landschap
landscape
taxatie
valuation
esthetische waarde
aesthetic value
filosofie
philosophy
kunst
arts
europa
europe
Garden History
Tuinhistorie
Landscaping.
Horticulture.

Classification/genre:

History.

Exemplaires:

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 77356
Cote: ID:92-B99
Statut: Disponible