The English Landscape Garden :Dreaming of Arcadia
The English Landscape Garden :Dreaming of Arcadia
hardback
Published:
31 October, 2024
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The English Landscape Garden has reignited my imagination, my interest and passion for the gardens of the 18th century and I’m sure it will do the same for you.
Gardens Illustrated
It is a rare treat to explore a production of publishing luxury like this.
George Plumptre, Country Life
A wide-ranging, intensely readable and lusciously illustrated introduction to the subject.
Charles Saumarez Smith, Literary Review
Smooth lawns, glassy pools, cool garden temples, mysterious woodland glades, evocative statuary ... the 18th-century English landscape garden offers a transcendent vision of Arcadia, a world of rich escapism peopled by gods and goddesses, young lovers and dairymaids, poets and philosophers.
This sumptuous, beautifully photographed volume celebrates this quintessentially British creation, arguably its greatest artform, taking you on a tour of 20 of the finest surviving gardens, including:
- Studley Royal (Yorkshire), a dreamy valley garden which culminates with a view down and across the ruins of a Cistercian abbey
- Stowe (Buckinghamshire), the great politically motivated garden of its day, boasting the ensemble masterpiece that is William Kent’s Elysian Fields
- Chiswick House (London), Lord Burlington’s experiment in neoclassical architecture
- Petworth (Sussex) – of ‘Capability’ Brown, who eschewed the symbolism of earlier generations but created instead his own powerful vision of pastoral Arcadia
- Hawkstone Park (Shropshire), designed to elicit a thrill of fear in visitors as they traverse rocky precipices and encounter live hermits
Including much new research and specially commissioned photographs, this is a book to dive into and be transported to an idyllic dream realm.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780711290921 |
| ISBN10 | 071129092X |
| Number Of Pages | 320 |
| Item Weight | 750 g |
| Publisher / Reseller | Quarto Publishing PLC |
| Format | hardback |
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Author's Bio
Tim Richardson is a writer who specializes in garden and landscape design and history. He has been gardens editor at Country Life, and landscape editor at Wallpaper* magazine, and was founding editor of both the award-winning gardens magazine New Eden and Country Life Gardens. He contributes to the Daily Telegraph, House and Garden, Gardens Illustrated and Country Life. He is the author of Phaidon's The Garden Book, Vanguard Landscapes Gardens of Martha Schwartz, English Gardens of the 20th Century and Arcadian Friends: the Makers of the English Landscape Garden. He is also the author of The New English Garden, Sigginghurst and The English Landscape Garden, all Frances Lincoln.