The Figure in the Landscape: Poetry, Painting, and Gardening During the Eighteenth Century

Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a peculiarly English art form--landscape gardening--and a corresponding change in attitudes toward the antural world. While the French, who lived under tyranny, had a tightly organized, restrictive gardens, the free English enjoyed gardens where they were at liberty to wander. John Dixon Hunt examines eighteenth-century letters, literary and critical works, biographies, paintings, prints, and drawings to trace the gradual movement from formal regularity toward a carefully calculated naturalness.

Author: John Dixon Hunt
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 08/01/1989
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.94lbs
Size: 9.03h x 5.97w x 0.71d
ISBN: 9780801839368

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