Lancelot Brown and the Capability Men: Landscape Revolution in Eighteenth-Century England

Williamson, Tom, Brown, David

ISBN 10: 1780236441 / ISBN 13: 9781780236445

Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2016

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Críticas: This is an utterly fresh and yet very disciplined account of Brown and his men . It will be an invaluable guide for readers who want to see a famous figure in contexts that extend their understanding of him. This is a book to reread, and a reference book that not just garden historians will want on their shelves, but historians of the eighteenth-century culture of England and its landscapes. --John Dixon Hunt, author of The Making of Place" This is a most enjoyable and important book. It is the first to assess Brown s landscape revolution within the context of its time and to analyze the contribution to the eighteenth-century landscape style of his proteges and rivals. It presents a rounded picture of the way these practitioners responded to the directions of patrons to create a new template for the landscaped park. It also acknowledges that this move towards a more open, minimalist style began with the work of Bridgeman and Kent, and argues convincingly that many other landscape styles, especially the geometric and the Rococo, hung on well into Brown s career and, indeed, were still being promoted after his death. All this analysis is set intelligently against the social, cultural, political, agrarian, and architectural developments in the period. I have no doubt that it will prove to be the most important book to come out on Brown during the tercentenary. --Timothy Mowl, University of Bristol" "This is an utterly fresh and yet very disciplined account of Brown and his 'men'. It will be an invaluable guide for readers who want to see a famous figure in contexts that extend their understanding of him. This is a book to reread, and a reference book that not just garden historians will want on their shelves, but historians of the eighteenth-century culture of England and its landscapes."--John Dixon Hunt, author of The Making of Place "This is a most enjoyable and important book. It is the first to assess Brown's landscape revolution within the context of its time and to analyze the contribution to the eighteenth-century landscape style of his proteges and rivals. It presents a rounded picture of the way these practitioners responded to the directions of patrons to create a new template for the landscaped park. It also acknowledges that this move towards a more open, minimalist style began with the work of Bridgeman and Kent, and argues convincingly that many other landscape styles, especially the geometric and the Rococo, hung on well into Brown's career and, indeed, were still being promoted after his death. All this analysis is set intelligently against the social, cultural, political, agrarian, and architectural developments in the period. I have no doubt that it will prove to be the most important book to come out on Brown during the tercentenary."--Timothy Mowl, University of Bristol

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Titel: Lancelot Brown and the Capability Men: ...
Verlag: Reaktion Books
Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
Einband: Hardcover
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