NY 1978 1st Cornell. 8vo., 206pp., illus., hardcover. Fine in VG DJ.

Andrew Marvell: His life and writings

Hunt, John Dixon

Paul Elek

The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Gardening & Landscape Design

MIT Press]

John Dixon Hunt is widely considered one of the foremost of today's writers on the history and theory of gardens and landscape architecture. Gardens and the Picturesque collects 11 of Hunt's essays - several of them never before published - that deal with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes, especially with the ways in which gardens have represented the world of nature "picturesquely." Ranging over subjects from the cult of the picturesque to verbal-visual parallels within gardens, from allegorical imagery to landscape painting, these essays brilliantly invoke Hunt's fascination with the idea of the garden both as a milieu - by which gardens become the most eloquent expressions of complex cultural ideas - and as a site of cultural translation, whereby one period shapes for its own purposes the ideas and forms inherited from its predecessors. From Castle Howard in Yorkshire to French impressionist gardens the essays deal with several crucial aspects of the picturesque controversy, how practical applications of the Picturesque taste affected people's treaty with and experience of landscape gardens and even the larger landscape - this last is tracked through the work of the great painter J. M. W. Turner and his talented commentator, John Ruskin, as well as through the garden designs of Humphry Repton and the lingering debts to the picturesque movement that haunt modernist theory. The book concludes with a consideration of the utopian aspirations and views of the garden in different societies. John Dixon Hunt is currently academic advisor to the Oak Spring Garden Library, Upperville, Virginia. The founding editor of both The Journal of Garden History and Word &amp; Image, he has been a Senior Fellow and from 1988 to 1991 Director of Studies in Landscape Architecture at Harvard University's Dumbarton Oaks.

Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture

Mit Pr

John Dixon Hunt is widely considered one of the foremost of today's writers on the history and theory of gardens and landscape architecture. Gardens and the Picturesque collects 11 of Hunt's essays - several of them never before published - that deal with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes, especially with the ways in which gardens have represented the world of nature "picturesquely." Ranging over subjects from the cult of the picturesque to verbal-visual parallels within gardens, from allegorical imagery to landscape painting, these essays brilliantly invoke Hunt's fascination with the idea of the garden both as a milieu - by which gardens become the most eloquent expressions of complex cultural ideas - and as a site of cultural translation, whereby one period shapes for its own purposes the ideas and forms inherited from its predecessors. From Castle Howard in Yorkshire to French impressionist gardens the essays deal with several crucial aspects of the picturesque controversy, how practical applications of the Picturesque taste affected people's treaty with and experience of landscape gardens and even the larger landscape - this last is tracked through the work of the great painter J. M. W. Turner and his talented commentator, John Ruskin, as well as through the garden designs of Humphry Repton and the lingering debts to the picturesque movement that haunt modernist theory. The book concludes with a consideration of the utopian aspirations and views of the garden in different societies.

From DJ Flap: First-ever book devoted to landscape garden designs of William Kent, the most important of all contributors to the so-called English landscape garden. Also a catalogue of his landscape designs and related drawings (115 items, illustrated). (Description by http-mart)

William Kent: Landscape Garden Designer : An Assessment and Catalogue of His Designs (Studies in Architecture)

Sotheby Parke Bernet Pubns

Tennyson: "In Memoriam" (Casebooks Series)

Literature & Fiction

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Historical Ground: The role of history in contemporary landscape architecture

Historical Ground investigates how contemporary landscape architecture invokes and displays the history of a site. In the light of modernism’s neglect of history, these essays by John Dixon Hunt explore how, in fact, designers do attach importance to how a location manifests its past.   The process involves, on the one hand, registering how geography, topography and climate determine design and, on the other, how history discovered or even created for a site can structure its design and its reception. History can be evident, exploited, invented or feigned – it can be original or a new history which becomes part of how we view a place.   Landscapes discussed in this book come from across Europe and the United States, highlighting the work of designers who have drawn from site history in their design, or have purposefully created their own historical account of the location. The author explores not just the historical past, but how new ground can be given a life and a future.

Arts & Photography

Architecture

Routledge

Historical Ground investigates how contemporary landscape architecture invokes and displays the history of a site. In the light of modernism’s neglect of history, these essays by John Dixon Hunt explore how, in fact, designers do attach importance to how a location manifests its past. The process involves, on the one hand, registering how geography, topography and climate determine design and, on the other, how history discovered or even created for a site can structure its design and its reception. History can be evident, exploited, invented or feigned – it can be original or a new history which becomes part of how we view a place. Landscapes discussed in this book come from across Europe and the United States, highlighting the work of designers who have drawn from site history in their design, or have purposefully created their own historical account of the location. The author explores not just the historical past, but how new ground can be given a life and a future.

Physical description; xv, 512 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. Subjects; Art Critics - [19th Century - United Kingdom]. Art Historians - [19th Century - United Kingdom]. John Ruskin [1819-1900].

The wider sea: A life of John Ruskin

History & Criticism

Dent

Garden and Grove: Italian Renaissance Garden and the English Imagination, 1600-1750

J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd.

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Andrew Marvell: His life and writings

The Genius of the Place: The English Landscape Garden, 1620-1820

Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture

Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture

William Kent: Landscape Garden Designer : An Assessment and Catalogue of His Designs (Studies in Architecture)

Tennyson: "In Memoriam" (Casebooks Series)

Historical Ground: The role of history in contemporary landscape architecture

Historical Ground: The role of history in contemporary landscape architecture

The wider sea: A life of John Ruskin

Garden and Grove: Italian Renaissance Garden and the English Imagination, 1600-1750