Author: James Lees-Milne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manors
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Stourhead
Author: James Lees-Milne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manors
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manors
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
What Gardens Mean
Author: Stephanie Ross
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226728070
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In What Gardens Mean, Stephanie Ross draws on philosophy as well as the histories of art, gardens, culture, and ideas to explore the magical lure of gardens. Paying special attention to the amazing landscape gardens of eighteenth-century England, she situates gardening among the other fine arts, documenting the complex messages gardens can convey and tracing various connections between gardens and the art of painting. What Gardens Mean offers a distinctive blend of historical and contemporary material, ranging from extensive accounts of famous eighteenth-century gardens to incisive connections with present-day philosophical debates. And while Ross examines aesthetic writings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including Joseph Addison’s Spectator essays on the pleasures of imagination, the book’s opening chapter surveys more recent theories about the nature and boundaries of art. She also considers gardens on their own terms, following changes in garden style, analyzing the phenomenal experience of viewing or strolling through a garden, and challenging the claim that the art of gardening is now a dead one. (ed.)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226728070
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
In What Gardens Mean, Stephanie Ross draws on philosophy as well as the histories of art, gardens, culture, and ideas to explore the magical lure of gardens. Paying special attention to the amazing landscape gardens of eighteenth-century England, she situates gardening among the other fine arts, documenting the complex messages gardens can convey and tracing various connections between gardens and the art of painting. What Gardens Mean offers a distinctive blend of historical and contemporary material, ranging from extensive accounts of famous eighteenth-century gardens to incisive connections with present-day philosophical debates. And while Ross examines aesthetic writings from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including Joseph Addison’s Spectator essays on the pleasures of imagination, the book’s opening chapter surveys more recent theories about the nature and boundaries of art. She also considers gardens on their own terms, following changes in garden style, analyzing the phenomenal experience of viewing or strolling through a garden, and challenging the claim that the art of gardening is now a dead one. (ed.)
The Conservation of the Garden at Stourhead and Parts of the Park Relating to it
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Classical Culture and the Idea of Rome in Eighteenth-Century England
Author: Philip Ayres
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521584906
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book looks at the aristocratic adoption of Roman ideals in eighteenth-century English culture.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521584906
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
This book looks at the aristocratic adoption of Roman ideals in eighteenth-century English culture.
The Poetics of Gardens
Author: Charles W. Moore
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262631532
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This is an entirely different garden book: a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. There is a universality about the creation of gardens across time and in diverse cultures that has inspired this entirely different garden book: a playful and affectionate typology of gardens; a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. The Poetics of Gardens is a celebration of places and the gardens they can become. Most of the 500 sketches, axonometric drawings, and photographs were created especially for this book. They explore the special qualities of places and the acts that can transform them into gardens. The authors discuss the qualities that create the promise of a garden the shapes of land and water, the established plants, the light and wind, the climate and show how these can be organized to give a place a special meaning. And they pay particular attention to the "rituals of habitation" by which we imaginatively take possession of places on the surface of the earth. The Poetics of Gardens examines great gardens made in other places, with other climates, at other times from ancient Rome to modem England, from Ball to Botany Bay, from the court of Ch'ien Lung to the magic kingdom of Walt Disney to explore their devices and record their images, scents, and sounds. The authors discuss the adaptation of the great garden traditions of the past to North American soil and call together the creators of these gardens to speculate about how their patterns and ideas can be appropriated, transformed, and composed into places that come alive for us.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262631532
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This is an entirely different garden book: a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. There is a universality about the creation of gardens across time and in diverse cultures that has inspired this entirely different garden book: a playful and affectionate typology of gardens; a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. The Poetics of Gardens is a celebration of places and the gardens they can become. Most of the 500 sketches, axonometric drawings, and photographs were created especially for this book. They explore the special qualities of places and the acts that can transform them into gardens. The authors discuss the qualities that create the promise of a garden the shapes of land and water, the established plants, the light and wind, the climate and show how these can be organized to give a place a special meaning. And they pay particular attention to the "rituals of habitation" by which we imaginatively take possession of places on the surface of the earth. The Poetics of Gardens examines great gardens made in other places, with other climates, at other times from ancient Rome to modem England, from Ball to Botany Bay, from the court of Ch'ien Lung to the magic kingdom of Walt Disney to explore their devices and record their images, scents, and sounds. The authors discuss the adaptation of the great garden traditions of the past to North American soil and call together the creators of these gardens to speculate about how their patterns and ideas can be appropriated, transformed, and composed into places that come alive for us.
Herdbook Containing the Pedigree of Improved Short-horn Cattle
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1574
Book Description
Vols. - include the Shorthorn Society's Grading register for beef Shorthorn cattle; v. - include the society's Herd book of poll shorthorns.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1574
Book Description
Vols. - include the Shorthorn Society's Grading register for beef Shorthorn cattle; v. - include the society's Herd book of poll shorthorns.
Landscape and Antiquity: Aspects of English Culture at Stourhead, 1718 to 1838
Author: Kenneth Woodbridge
Publisher: London : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
"The book is concerned with the lives of two men, Henry Hoare (1705–85), the imaginative baker who was a pioneer of English landscape gardening, and his grandson, Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838), the archaeologist. The first part of the book discusses in detail the making of the famous Classical Elysium at Stourhead, and its associations with literature and painting. An account of travel, at home and abroad, forms a prologue to Colt Hoare's main achievement, his exploration with William Cunnington of the barrows and earthworks on and around Salisbury Plain. the record of this in the Ancient History of Wiltshire was an important step towards objective methods in field archaeology. the story of their collaboration is here told for the first time in full. The tastes of Henry and Colt Hoare as collectors and patrons of the arts show the trend in fashion from Classicism to Romanticism. The book is an illustration of the background from which the English topographical and picturesque movements arose."-Publisher.
Publisher: London : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
"The book is concerned with the lives of two men, Henry Hoare (1705–85), the imaginative baker who was a pioneer of English landscape gardening, and his grandson, Sir Richard Colt Hoare (1758–1838), the archaeologist. The first part of the book discusses in detail the making of the famous Classical Elysium at Stourhead, and its associations with literature and painting. An account of travel, at home and abroad, forms a prologue to Colt Hoare's main achievement, his exploration with William Cunnington of the barrows and earthworks on and around Salisbury Plain. the record of this in the Ancient History of Wiltshire was an important step towards objective methods in field archaeology. the story of their collaboration is here told for the first time in full. The tastes of Henry and Colt Hoare as collectors and patrons of the arts show the trend in fashion from Classicism to Romanticism. The book is an illustration of the background from which the English topographical and picturesque movements arose."-Publisher.
Coates's Herd Book
Author: Henry Strafford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1522
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cattle
Languages : en
Pages : 1522
Book Description
Consolidated Tables of Duties for Lights, Buoys, and Beacons, in Great Britain and Ireland, Chargeable on Coasting Vessels
Author: Trinity House (London, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beacons
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Beacons
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Catalogue of Antiquities in the Museum of the Wiltshire Archæological and Natural History Society at Devizes: All remaining antiquities with the exception of coins and tokens
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wiltshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Wiltshire (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description