Uvedale Price (1747-1829): Decoding the Picturesque Contributor(s): Watkins, Charles (Author), Cowell, Ben (Author) |
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ISBN: 1843837080 ISBN-13: 9781843837084 Publisher: Boydell Press OUR PRICE: $47.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - History | Modern - General |
Dewey: B |
Series: Garden and Landscape History |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 7" W x 9.9" (2.00 lbs) 276 pages |
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Publisher Description: Picturesque ideas suffused English aesthetics during the Georgian period and beyond, to such an extent that the picturesque became the principal way of seeing, understanding and appreciating landscape well into the twentieth century. Picturesque modes of art and design were taken up enthusiastically by followers as diverse as Sir Walter Scott, John Claudius Loudon, the pioneers of the Garden City movement and the town planners of the post-war era. According to Nikolaus Pevsner, Uvedale Price (1747-1829) was "the most brilliant of the theorists of the English Picturesque". Yet until now Price has remained an elusive figure, despite the wide-ranging controversy that his Essay on the Picturesque (1794) produced on its publication. Charles Watkins is Professor of Rural Geography, University of Nottingham; Ben Cowell is Assistant Director, External Affairs, National Trust.
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