Symes Prints and the Landscape Garden

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-7398229-7-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 220 mm x 280 mm

Renowned landscape historian Michael Symes explores the history and techniques of printmaking and how prints of landscape gardens reflected and influenced fashion - sometimes at the expense of reality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Symes, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekten & Architekturbüros
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Gartenbau
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1 Image and Propaganda
2 Printomania
3 Pattern Books
4 Royal Landscapes
5 Stowe
6 Chiswick
7 The London Pleasure Gardens
8 Nuneham Courtenay
9 William Woollett
10 Luke Sullivan, Francois Vivares and Anthony Walker
11 Horace Walpole
12 The Gazetteers
13 Sets of Seats
14 The Picturesque
15 A Miscellany of Prints
Select reading
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Symes Michael:
The author is a garden historian concerned particularly with the 18th-century landscape garden in Britain and Europe. He has written several garden history books, both general and specialised, contributed many articles of academic and more popular interest, and lectured at home and abroad. He has organised many study days and conferences, and is currently engaged in developing links with garden historians in continental countries.

Before retirement he worked at Birkbeck, University of London, where he established the MA in Garden History. He is President of the Birkbeck Garden History Group and a Vice President of The Gardens Trust. He has been a historical consultant for the restoration of Painshill since 1981.