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Gardens and the Picturesque collects eleven of Hunt's essays--several of them never before published--that deal with the ways in which men and women have given meaning...Read More

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    John Dixon Hunt is widely considered one of the foremost of today's writers on the history and theory of gardens and landscape architecture. Gardens and the Picturesque collects eleven of Hunt's essays -- several of them never before published -- that deal with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes, especially with the ways in which gardens have represented the world of nature "picturesquely." Ranging over subjects from the cult of the picturesque to verbal-visual parallels within gardens, from allegorical imagery to landscape painting, these essays brilliantly invoke Hunt's fascination with the idea of the garden both as a milieu -- by which gardens become the most eloquent expressions of complex cultural ideas -- and as a site of cultural translation, whereby one period shapes for its own purposes the ideas and forms inherited from its predecessors.

  • 0262581310
  • 9780262581318
  • J D Hunt
  • 21 April 1994
  • MIT Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 408
  • New edition
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