The Prints of Paul Sandby (1731-1809): A Catalogue Raisonné
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Harvey Miller - Art History (Outside a Series)
- Pages: 247 p.
- Size:225 x 300 mm
- Illustrations:4 b/w, 121 col.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2025
- € 150,00 EXCL. VAT RETAIL PRICE
- ISBN: 978-1-912554-76-8
- Hardback
- Forthcoming (Mar/25)
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This study of gardening in the West, from antiquity to the nineteenth century, focuses on original, primary texts, and brings to light the ideas expressed at the time by designers, patrons, poets, theorists, and the visiting public.
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BIO
Joseph Manca (PhD, Columbia University) has taught for over thirty-five years at Rice University, where he is Professor of Art History and the Nina J. Cullinan Professor of Art and Art History. He is the author of a number of single-author books and scholarly articles on a broad range of European and American topics, from the Renaissance to contemporary art. He received the John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize in 2014 from the Foundation for Landscape Studies for his book George Washington’s Eye (The John Hopkins University Press, 2012).
Summary
Fine gardening flourished in Britain from Elizabethan times to the Victorian era and beyond. Along with the built accomplishments, an abundance of writing throws light on what designers, patrons, and visitors over the years thought about the moral meaning of gardens. Virtue in the Garden focuses on original, primary texts that expressed period aesthetic, moral, and political ideas. Throughout the centuries, spirited arguments took place about the meaning and value of gardens. Gardens are the only art form that one cannot move, and they remain part of a national geography. The British often expressed patriotic pride in their gardening, especially after the innovative establishment in the eighteenth-century of naturalistic landscape gardens by designers such as Capability Brown and William Kent. By the nineteenth century, landscape gardening itself faced opposition from a number of designers and writers who favored more traditional and formal ideas. While the chronological focus of Virtue in the Garden is on the late sixteenth to the early twentieth century, opening pages glance back at writings and gardens of Greco-Roman antiquity and the Middle Ages, and an epilogue looks briefly at some more recent moral trends in British gardens and public parks, with observations on the role of institutions such as the National Trust and English Heritage.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Prelude: Antiquity and the Middle Ages in Europe
Chapter 1: Morality in Early Formal Gardening
Chapter 2: Landscape Gardening, Freedom, and Nationalism
Chapter 3: Landscape Gardening and Personal Virtue
Chapter 4: Moral Trends in British Gardens of the Extended Nineteenth Century
Epilogue: Modern Times
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