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The English Landscape Garden
Dreaming of Arcadia
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Smooth lawns, glassy pools, cool garden temples, mysterious woodland glades, evocative statuary ... the 18th-century English landscape garden offers a transcendent vision of Arcadia, a world of rich escapism peopled by gods and goddesses, young lovers and dairymaids, poets and philosophers. This sumptuous, beautifully photographed volume...
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The English Landscape Garden is a beautifully photographed celebration of the best of the 18th century English landscape garden - a quintessentially British art form that influenced the rest of the world.
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Smooth lawns, glassy pools, cool garden temples, mysterious woodland glades, evocative statuary ... the 18th-century English landscape garden offers a transcendent vision of Arcadia, a world of rich escapism peopled by gods and goddesses, young lovers and dairymaids, poets and philosophers.
This sumptuous, beautifully photographed volume celebrates this quintessentially British creation, arguably its greatest artform. It takes you on a tour of 20 of the finest surviving gardens, including:
Studley Royal (Yorkshire), a dreamy valley garden which culminates with a view down and across the ruins of a Cistercian abbey.
Stowe (Buckinghamshire), the great politically motivated garden of its day, boasting the ensemble masterpiece that is William Kent's Elysian Fields.
Chiswick House (London), Lord Burlington's experiment in neoclassical architecture.
Petworth (Sussex) - of 'Capability' Brown, who eschewed the symbolism of earlier generations but created instead his own powerful vision of pastoral Arcadia.
Hawkstone Park (Shropshire), designed to elicit a thrill of fear in visitors as they traverse rocky precipices and encounter live hermits.
Including much new research and specially commissioned photographs, The English Landscape Garden is a book to dive into and be transported to an idyllic dream realm.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780711290921
Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLC
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 31 October 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Frances Lincoln
Illustration: 300+ colour photos
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 248.0mm
Height: 305.0mm
Weight: 750g
Pages: 320
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About the Author
Tim Richardson is a writer who specializes in garden and landscape design and history. He has been gardens editor at Country Life, and landscape editor at Wallpaper* magazine, and was founding editor of both the award-winning gardens magazine New Eden and Country Life Gardens. He contributes to the Daily Telegraph, House and Garden, Gardens Illustrated and Country Life. He is the author of Phaidon's The Garden Book, Vanguard Landscapes Gardens of Martha Schwartz, English Gardens of the 20th Century and Arcadian Friends: the Makers of the English Landscape Garden. He is also the author of The New English Garden (Frances Lincoln).
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