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Nature in the city: Horace Cleveland's aesthetic
AbstractHorace Cleveland, a Nineteenth Century landscape architect, conceived of the city as a work of art. The development of Cleveland's aesthetic can be traced directly to ideas about the American landscape that were explored in significant works of American literature. Cleveland was influenced by the writing of Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The communicative potential of the landscape as presented in Irving's writing influenced Cleveland's thinking as he considered the affective potential of designed landscapes. The writing of Longfellow and Emerson influenced Cleveland's ideas about his social responsibility as an artist in the landscape. Cleveland was also influenced by Emerson's aesthetic theories that maintained that the artist in the landscape should be true to the place in which he worked. Those ideas about the landscape and landscape design were first tested by Cleveland (with his partner Robert Morris Copeland) in the design of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Emerson's burial place in Concord, MA. By the 1870s Cleveland decided that his calling was in the west. He first moved to Chicago, but the greatest success of his career came with the design of the Minneapolis Park System, a design that was in keeping with the aesthetic principles that he gleaned from American literature. Cleveland's last important work was Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis—an important literary garden owing to the connection with Longfellow's ‘This Song off Hiawatha’—whiich added the final link to the Minneapolis Park System.
Nature in the city: Horace Cleveland's aesthetic
AbstractHorace Cleveland, a Nineteenth Century landscape architect, conceived of the city as a work of art. The development of Cleveland's aesthetic can be traced directly to ideas about the American landscape that were explored in significant works of American literature. Cleveland was influenced by the writing of Washington Irving, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The communicative potential of the landscape as presented in Irving's writing influenced Cleveland's thinking as he considered the affective potential of designed landscapes. The writing of Longfellow and Emerson influenced Cleveland's ideas about his social responsibility as an artist in the landscape. Cleveland was also influenced by Emerson's aesthetic theories that maintained that the artist in the landscape should be true to the place in which he worked. Those ideas about the landscape and landscape design were first tested by Cleveland (with his partner Robert Morris Copeland) in the design of Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Emerson's burial place in Concord, MA. By the 1870s Cleveland decided that his calling was in the west. He first moved to Chicago, but the greatest success of his career came with the design of the Minneapolis Park System, a design that was in keeping with the aesthetic principles that he gleaned from American literature. Cleveland's last important work was Minnehaha Falls in Minneapolis—an important literary garden owing to the connection with Longfellow's ‘This Song off Hiawatha’—whiich added the final link to the Minneapolis Park System.
Nature in the city: Horace Cleveland's aesthetic
Nadenicek, Daniel Joseph (author)
Landscape and Urban Planning ; 26 ; 5-15
1993-01-01
11 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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