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The Flowering of the Landscape Garden English Pleasure Grounds 1720–1800 Mark Laird Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Press (1999). Pp. 446. Figs 226. Colour plates 66. ISBN 0-8122-3457-X
Mark Laird's impressive achievement has all the qualities of a very fine book. It is written with relish, has fine illustrations, and contains a wealth of infornution. What is perhaps even more important, is that it has a central thesis: to demonstrate that the picturesque style has too often been discussed without taking into account the flowers and the flowering shrubs used by the Georgians to decorate and to animate their pleasure grounds. In the author's words:
Conventional histories of the picturesque style have always assumed that colourful flowers and flowering shrubs were absent from the landscape garden, as they are to-day. Thus historians, preoccupied with ‘nature’ association, and social, political, or economic forces, have largely ignored the interesting union of regular and irregular forms that characterized the English pleasure ground.
The Flowering of the Landscape Garden English Pleasure Grounds 1720–1800 Mark Laird Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Press (1999). Pp. 446. Figs 226. Colour plates 66. ISBN 0-8122-3457-X
Mark Laird's impressive achievement has all the qualities of a very fine book. It is written with relish, has fine illustrations, and contains a wealth of infornution. What is perhaps even more important, is that it has a central thesis: to demonstrate that the picturesque style has too often been discussed without taking into account the flowers and the flowering shrubs used by the Georgians to decorate and to animate their pleasure grounds. In the author's words:
Conventional histories of the picturesque style have always assumed that colourful flowers and flowering shrubs were absent from the landscape garden, as they are to-day. Thus historians, preoccupied with ‘nature’ association, and social, political, or economic forces, have largely ignored the interesting union of regular and irregular forms that characterized the English pleasure ground.
The Flowering of the Landscape Garden English Pleasure Grounds 1720–1800 Mark Laird Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture, University of Pennsylvania Press (1999). Pp. 446. Figs 226. Colour plates 66. ISBN 0-8122-3457-X
Baridon, Michel (author)
Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes ; 22 ; 153-154
2002-06-01
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