Parks and gardens of eighteenth-century England are usually understood as the creations of individual geniuses like William kent, Capability Brown, and Humphry Repton. But this wasn't necessarily a view shared by their contemporaries. Landowners typically had strong ideas about how their property should look and how it should function. And, according to Tom Williamson, other powerful influences were at work as well. In Polite Landscapes Williamson examines the wider social, economic, and political implications of these ...
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Parks and gardens of eighteenth-century England are usually understood as the creations of individual geniuses like William kent, Capability Brown, and Humphry Repton. But this wasn't necessarily a view shared by their contemporaries. Landowners typically had strong ideas about how their property should look and how it should function. And, according to Tom Williamson, other powerful influences were at work as well. In Polite Landscapes Williamson examines the wider social, economic, and political implications of these extraordinary creations. He reveals how the aristocracy and gentry -- who paid for and lived in these remarkable private landscapes -- participated in their creation for a variety of complex interests and needs. More than simply a grand setting for a country house, the park and garden had to accommodate farming and forestry enterprises and serve as a proper setting for hunting, riding and other recreational activities. They also needed to conform to the aesthetic principles of the landowner's favorite philosophers and landscape gardeners. Emphasizing the practical relationship between landowners (who were demanding clients) and artists (who were also businessmen), Williamson shows how changing fashions of landscape design expressed the broader currents of social and economic development in eighteenth-century England. He examines a wide range of properties -- including homes of gentry and middle class as well as those of the nobility -- and assesses the impact of the English landscape garden on the rest of the world. Illustrated with dozens of contemporary maps, plans, and paintings, Polite Landscapes is a book for anyone with a serious interest in gardens, parks, great houses, and the English landscape.
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Good Condition. Dust jacket is complete but rubbed and worn at edges and corners. Pages free from notes or highlighting. A good used copy without significant flaws. Publisher's note: Fully illustrated with contemporary maps and plans. viii, 182 pp. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; England; Civilization; Landscape gardening; Gardens; Parks; Landscape design; ISBN: 0750904372. ISBN/EAN: 9780750904377. Add. Inventory No: 231102KHAD03048.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 700grams, ISBN: 9780750904377.
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Like New in Like New jacket. Hardbound book in like new edition, immaculate in black boards with bright gilt lettering on the spine. Full color illustrated dust jacket in mylar is likewise crisp and straight. 182 pp. B&W illustrations throughout text.
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Octavo; VG/VG Hardcover; Blue and green spine with blue and white text; Light shelf wear to dust jacket; Boards are strong and clean, binding solid; Minor spotting to text block exterior, text block clean; 182 pp NOTE: Shelved in Room X, Case #8. 1308533. FP New Rockville Stock.
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Near fine. Octavo. 26 x 17.5 cm. 182pp. A very nice copy in an equally nice dust jacket. Name of former owner on front endpaper. Full and half page black and white illustrations throughout.
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VG (Boards are lightly edgeworn; textblock edges have light smuding/scuffing; interior is clean; binding is solid. ). VG-(DJ is edge/shelfworn, with smudged/scuffed/creasing. ) Black cloth boards with gilt lettering; color-illustrated DJ, with navy, black and white lettering; viii, 182 pp.; richly illustrated. "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."--Jacket.
