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Gardens and the Picturesque
Language: en
Pages: 414
Authors: John Dixon Hunt
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: MIT Press

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A collection of Hunt's essays, many previously unpublished, dealing with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes, especiall
The Picturesque Garden in Europe
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: John Dixon Hunt
Categories: Gardens
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004 - Publisher:

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The author traces the rise of the picturesque garden in England and throughout Europe, exploring intricate dialogues between practical place-making and the theo
The Picturesque
Language: en
Pages: 314
Authors: John Macarthur
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-07 - Publisher: Routledge

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In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque – when it was a risky term concerned with a ref
Visual Planning and the Picturesque
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Nikolaus Pevsner
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Getty Publications

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A previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner, much of which was published as journal articles in the Architectural Review in the 1940s and 1950s during Pev
The Politics of the Picturesque
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Stephen Copley
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-03-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Essays on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ways of looking at landscape, in theory and practice.
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