Traces the development throughout the 18th century the course of the 'picturesque' landscape, which seemed to the experienced viewer either composed after a painting or designed to be the subject of one; in such landscapes natural features were exploited or rearranged, and might be enriched by Classical, Chinese or otherwise exotic ornamental structures. The two key players were England and France; Hunt further samples the picturesque garden's diffusion in Scandinavia, Russia, the German-speaking lands and Italy up to the 1840s.
| ISBN | 050028508X | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | ISBN13 | 9780500285084
(What's this?) | | Pages | 208 | | Publisher | Thames & Hudson Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 780 | | Imprint | Thames & Hudson Ltd | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 245 | | Publication date | 23 Aug 2004 | | Width (mm) | 195 | | Library of Congress | SB472.45 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY | 712.60942 | |
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1. What, how and when was the picturesque garden? The aesthetic, literary and historical origins of the idea of the 'picturesque'; 2. Early English picturesque Garden designs and theories of Kent, Walpole and gentleman amateurs like Shenstone; famous gardens including Painshill, Stourhead, Hestercombe; love of the exotic (Chinese, etc); 3. The picturesque climax: theory and practice Famous later 18th-century gardens and designer theorists, including Gilpin, Payne Knight, Uvedale Price, Repton; 4. Translating from the English France's indebtedness to England, and its independent theories of the picturesque; 5. French picturesque in practice Distinctively French contributions (Ermenonville, Monceau, Mereville); 6. Beyond Anglomania Scandinavia, German-speaking territories, Poland and Russia, Italy
"'Superbly designed and illustrated throughout... an excellent, addition to an area of scholarship that has been but lightly covered' - Country Life; 'A sophisticated study, beautifully illustrated' - The Architects' Journal"
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