Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 462
Book Description
Observations on Modern Gardening
Author: Thomas WhatelyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Modern Gardens and the Landscape
Author: Elizabeth Bauer KasslerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
"This volume, which accompanies a major exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, provides a comprehensive overview of Munch's work. Its color plates illustrate the full range of his art, including his many extraordinary self-portraits; intensely emotional motifs such as The Kiss and Puberty, Anxiety and Melancholy, The Sick Child and The Dance of Life; one of the modern era's most famous and quintessential images, The Scream; and the mutable series called the Frieze of Life, in which Munch attempted to chronicle "the modern life of the soul.""--BOOK JACKET.
On Modern Gardening
Author: Horace WalpolePublisher: Pallas Athene
ISBN: 9781873429839
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
By a mile, this is the most brilliant and most influential essay ever written on English garden history. For two centuries it mapped the whole landscape of the subject. However, the author was partial in the highest degree. Horace Walpole believed in progress, in modernization, and the superiority of everything English to almost everything that had gone before. He had a special dislike of Baroque gardens, as exemplified by Versailles, which for him symbolized absolutism, tyranny, and the oppression of nature.
includes "On modern gardening"
Author: Painters in the reign of George II. [cont.] On modern gardening. Supplementary anecdotes of gardening in England, by Mr. Dallaway. Catalogue of engravers. Engravers before the reign of James I. to engravers in the reign of George II. Life of George Vertue and list of his works. Appendix. Alphabetical list of engraved portraits. General index
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Author: An Encyclopædia of Gardening
Author: John Claudius LoudonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 1332
Book Description
The Genius of the Place
Author: John Dixon HuntPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262580922
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
A garden classic, The Genius of the Place reveals that the history of landscape gardening is much more than a history of design and style; it opens up a wide perspective of English cultural history, showing how landscape gardening was gradually transformed over two centuries into an art that has been widely imitated throughout Europe and North America. The English landscape garden is richly documented in this anthology. Over 100 illustrations accompany writings that range from Francis Bacon to Jane Austin; from the early 1600s, when Englishmen began to determine their own concept and form of the garden, through the first half of the eighteenth century when its distinctive feature emerged, to the heyday of the landscape garden under "Capability" Brown and the reactions to his pure formalism under Repton and Loudon in the 1800s. This edition contains a new introduction and bibliography covering the many developments in garden history during the last dozen years.
An Encyclopaedia of Gardening
Author: John Claudius LoudonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
Book Description
George Washington's Eye
Author: Joseph MancaPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 142140432X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Explore the beauty and history of Mount Vernon—and the inquisitive, independent mind of its famous architect and landscape designer. Winner of the John Brinkerhoff Jackson Book Prize of the Foundation for Landscape Architecture On the banks of the Potomac River, Mount Vernon stands, with its iconic portico boasting breathtaking views and with a landscape to rival the great gardens of Europe, as a monument to George Washington’s artistic and creative efforts. More than one million people visit Mount Vernon each year—drawn to the stature and beauty of Washington’s family estate. Art historian Joseph Manca systematically examines Mount Vernon—its stylistic, moral, and historical dimensions—offering a complete picture of this national treasure and the man behind its enduring design. Manca brings to light a Washington deeply influenced by his wide travels in colonial America, with a broader architectural knowledge than previously suspected, and with a philosophy that informed his aesthetic sensibility. Washington believed that design choices and personal character mesh to form an ethic of virtue and fulfillment and that art is inextricably linked with moral and social concerns. Manca examines how these ideas shaped the material culture of Mount Vernon. Based on careful study of Washington’s personal diaries and correspondence and on the lively accounts of visitors to his estate, this richly illustrated book introduces a George Washington unfamiliar to many readers—an avid art collector, amateur architect, and leading landscape designer of his time.
Billerica [Massachusetts] Garden Suburb
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Author: Arthur Coleman ComeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description