An edition of Polite landscapes (1995)

Polite landscapes

gardens and society in eighteenth-century England

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An edition of Polite landscapes (1995)

Polite landscapes

gardens and society in eighteenth-century England

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Parks and gardens in eighteenth-century England are usually seen as works of art created by individual geniuses like William Kent, Capability Brown and Humphry Repton. But this narrow view wasn't necessarily shared by contemporaries, and Tom Williamson in this thought-provoking book reveals that the aristocracy and gentry, who paid for these private landscapes and lived in them, were motivated by more complex interests and needs.

Landowners had strong ideas of their own about how their property should look and how it should function. The park and garden were part of a working estate consisting of farms and forestry enterprises, and the surroundings of the country house were shaped to suit the requirements of hunting, shooting, riding and other recreational activities as well as to conform to the aesthetic principles of philosophers and landscape gardeners.

Tom Williamson's pioneering study concentrates on the wider social, economic and political implications of these elaborate private landscapes. He emphasizes the practical relationship between the landowners who were demanding customers and the designers who were businessmen as well as artists. In the process he shows how changing fashions in the layout of gentlemen's pleasure grounds were related to broader currents of social and economic development in eighteenth-century England.

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182

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Polite landscapes: gardens and society in eighteenth-century England
1995, Johns Hopkins University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-177) and index.

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Baltimore, Md

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
306.4/7
Library of Congress
SB470.55.G7 W54 1995, SB470.55.G7W54 1995

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Pagination
viii, 182 p. :
Number of pages
182

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Open Library
OL823843M
ISBN 10
0801852056
LCCN
95079552
OCLC/WorldCat
33142294, 32916019
Library Thing
3319686
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1706041

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