Author: Anna Pavord
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408868946
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. In spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land. In the eighteenth century, artists first started to paint English scenery, and the Lakes, as well as Snowdon, began to attract a new kind of visitor, the landscape tourist. Early travel guides sought to capture the beauty and inspiration of waterfall, lake and fell. Sublime! Picturesque! they said, as they laid down rules for correctly appreciating a view. While painters painted and writers wrote, an entirely different band of men, the agricultural improvers, also travelled the land, and published a series of remarkable commentaries on the state of agricultural England. They looked at the land in terms of its usefulness as well as its beauty, and, using their reports, Anna Pavord explores the many different ways that land was managed and farmed, showing that what is universal is a place's capacity to frame and define our experience. Moving from the rolling hills of Dorset to the peaks of the Scottish Highlands, this is an exquisite and compelling book, written with zest, passion and deep understanding.
Landskipping
Author: Anna Pavord
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408868946
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. In spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land. In the eighteenth century, artists first started to paint English scenery, and the Lakes, as well as Snowdon, began to attract a new kind of visitor, the landscape tourist. Early travel guides sought to capture the beauty and inspiration of waterfall, lake and fell. Sublime! Picturesque! they said, as they laid down rules for correctly appreciating a view. While painters painted and writers wrote, an entirely different band of men, the agricultural improvers, also travelled the land, and published a series of remarkable commentaries on the state of agricultural England. They looked at the land in terms of its usefulness as well as its beauty, and, using their reports, Anna Pavord explores the many different ways that land was managed and farmed, showing that what is universal is a place's capacity to frame and define our experience. Moving from the rolling hills of Dorset to the peaks of the Scottish Highlands, this is an exquisite and compelling book, written with zest, passion and deep understanding.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408868946
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Landskipping is a ravishing celebration of landscape, its iridescent beauty and its potential to comfort, awe and mesmerise. In spirit as Romantic as rational, Anna Pavord explores the different ways in which we have, throughout the ages, responded to the land. In the eighteenth century, artists first started to paint English scenery, and the Lakes, as well as Snowdon, began to attract a new kind of visitor, the landscape tourist. Early travel guides sought to capture the beauty and inspiration of waterfall, lake and fell. Sublime! Picturesque! they said, as they laid down rules for correctly appreciating a view. While painters painted and writers wrote, an entirely different band of men, the agricultural improvers, also travelled the land, and published a series of remarkable commentaries on the state of agricultural England. They looked at the land in terms of its usefulness as well as its beauty, and, using their reports, Anna Pavord explores the many different ways that land was managed and farmed, showing that what is universal is a place's capacity to frame and define our experience. Moving from the rolling hills of Dorset to the peaks of the Scottish Highlands, this is an exquisite and compelling book, written with zest, passion and deep understanding.
Dictionarium Polygraphicum
Author: John Barrow (teacher of mathematics.)
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Libraries of the Following Eminent and Learned Persons, Deceased, Viz. The Rev. Dr. Thomas Gale ... Roger Gale ... Mr. Henry Wotton ... Dr. Francis Dickens ... Counsellor Stukely ... Counsellor Owen ... Mr. Reynell ... and Several Others. Vol. I. ...
Author: T. Osborne
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Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Notices and Documents Illustrative of the Literary History of Glasgow, During the Greater Part of the Last Century
Author: William James Duncan
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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The English Connoisseur
Author: Thomas Martyn
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 426
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(Publications).
Author: Maitland Club
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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Publisher:
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Category : Printing
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
London and Its Environs Described
Author: Robert Dodsley
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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The Art of Painting
Author: GĂ©rard de Lairesse
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Polygraphice: or, the Arts of drawing, engraving ... varnishing ... dying ... The fifth edition, with ... additions: adorned with sculptures including a portrait , etc
Author: William SALMON (M.D.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Languages : en
Pages : 894
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A catalogue of a curious collection of original pictures
Author: Lambe's (Londen)
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Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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