[PDF.99kf] Polite Landscapes: Gardens & Society in Eighteenth-Century England (Country House)

Polite Landscapes: Gardens & Society in Eighteenth-Century England (Country House)

[PDF.qo59] Polite Landscapes: Gardens & Society in Eighteenth-Century England (Country House)

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 | #5733740 in Books |  1999-03 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.25 x6.75 x.50l, | File type: PDF | 192 pages

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||3 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| More than a book on gardens|By A Customer|In an intriguing approach that 'digs a little deeper' into the reasons for and ideas about classic English landscape gardening, the author provides a much-needed broadening of perspective to include issues such as economics, class dynamics, political affiliation, and overall land use rather than focussing on the more limited aesthetic| ||"Provide some interesting prospectives on the inception of the landscape park." -- Peter Martin, Albion|About the Author||Tom Williamson is lecturer in landscape history at the Centre of East Anglian Studies at the Univer

Parks and gardens of 18th-century England are usually understood as the creations of individual geniuses like William Kent, Capability Brown, and Humphry Repton. But this wasn't necessarily a view shared by their contemporaries. Landowners typically had strong ideas about how their property should look and how it should function. And, according to this book, other powerful influences were at work as well. The book examines the wider social, economic and political implica...

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