Capability Brown And The English Landscape Garden
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Author |
: Laura Mayer |
Publisher |
: Shire Publications |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011-07-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0747810494 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780747810490 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis Capability Brown and the English Landscape Garden by : Laura Mayer
The name Lancelot 'Capability' Brown has become synonymous with the eighteenth-century English landscape garden: between 1751 and 1783 his consultancy handled over 170 major commissions. Ruthlessly efficient, he could stake out the 'capabilities' of a particular terrain within an hour on horseback. Rising to the position of Master Gardener to George III, his trademark features included bald lawns, clumped trees, undulating lakes and enclosing belts of woodland on the estate's perimeter. With this standard park formula Brown and his followers held the commercial monopoly on garden design well into the following century, resisting the more rugged topography advocated by Richard Payne Knight's new generation of Romantics.
Author |
: John Phibbs |
Publisher |
: Rizzoli Publications |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2021-09-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780847863549 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0847863549 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Humphry Repton by : John Phibbs
A definitive survey of the glorious British landscapes designed by Humphry Repton, whose influence is felt everywhere from the rolling meadows and kitchen gardens of English estates to New York City’s Central Park. Widely acknowledged as the last great landscape designer of the eighteenth century, Humphry Repton created work that survives as a bridge between the picturesque theory of Capability Brown and the pastoral philosophy of Frederick Law Olmsted. By turns inspired by and in opposition to the grandeur of Brown’s estates, Repton’s contribution to the British landscape encompassed a tremendous range, from subtle adjustments that emphasized the natural features of the countryside to deliberate interventions that challenged the notion of the picturesque. This remarkable book explores 15 of Repton’s most celebrated landscapes—from the early maturity of his gardens at Courteenhall and Mulgrave Castle to more adventurous landscapes at Stanage, Brightling, and Endsleigh that would point the way toward how we envision parkland today. With photography by Joe Cornish commissioned specially for the book, and including reproductions of key illustrations and plans for garden design from the famous red books that shed light on Repton’s vision and process, this book illuminates some of Britain’s most beautiful gardens and parks—and the masterful mind behind their creation.
Author |
: Roger Turner |
Publisher |
: Rizzoli International Publications |
Total Pages |
: 212 |
Release |
: 1985 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015016804356 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Capability Brown and the Eighteenth Century English Landscape by : Roger Turner
Turner, landscape architect and writer, begins with a good introduction of 18th-century England and its gardens. He follows with a biographical account of Lancelot "Capability'' Brown and his many contributions to landscape design, including the creation of numerous parks for the English nobility. In particular, 15 of Brown's landscapes (e.g., Blenheim) are covered in detail, with illustrations ranging from original plans to photographs of the maturation of the gardens. Turner describes the grooming of nature, the plants used, and the practical and technical aspects of the work that created the natural landscapes that have made Brown immortal. A handsome and well-written book, highly recommended for subject collections. Daniel S. Kalk, Enfield Central Lib., Ct. -Library Journal.
Author |
: John Phibbs |
Publisher |
: English Heritage |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2017-05-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781848023666 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1848023669 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Synopsis Place-making by : John Phibbs
Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown (1716-1783) is the iconic figure at the head of the English landscape style, a tradition that has dominated landscape design in the western world. He was widely acclaimed for his genius in his own day and his influence on the culture of England has arguably been as great as that of Turner, Telford and Wordsworth. Yet, although Brown has had his biographers, his work has generated very little analysis. Brown was prolific; he has had a direct influence on half a million acres of England and Wales. The astonishing scale of his work means that he did not just transform the English countryside, but also our idea of what it is to be English and what England is. His work is everywhere, but goes largely unnoticed. His was such a naturalistic style that all his best work was mistaken for untouched nature. This has made it very difficult to see and understand. Visitors to Brown landscapes do not question the existence of the parkland he created and there has been little professional or academic analysis of his work. This book for the first time looks at the motivation behind Brown’s landscapes and questions their value and structure whilst at the same time placing him within the English landscape tradition. It aims primarily to make landscape legible, to show people where to stand, what to look at and how to see.
Author |
: David Jacques |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 417 |
Release |
: 2017-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300222012 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300222017 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gardens of Court and Country by : David Jacques
Gardens of Court and Country provides the first comprehensive overview of the development of the English formal garden from 1630 to 1730. Often overshadowed by the English landscape garden that became fashionable later in the 18th century, English formal gardens of the 17th century displayed important design innovations that reflected a broad rethinking of how gardens functioned within society. With insights into how the Protestant nobility planned and used their formal gardens, the domestication of the lawn, and the transformation of gardens into large rustic parks, David Jacques explores the ways forecourts, flower gardens, bowling greens, cascades, and more were created and reimagined over time. This handsome volume includes 300 illustrations - including plans, engravings, and paintings - that bring lost and forgotten gardens back to life.
Author |
: John Dixon Hunt |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 420 |
Release |
: 1988-09-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0262580926 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262580922 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Genius of the Place by : John Dixon Hunt
A garden classic, The Genius of the Place reveals that the history of landscape gardening is much more than a history of design and style; it opens up a wide perspective of English cultural history, showing how landscape gardening was gradually transformed over two centuries into an art that has been widely imitated throughout Europe and North America. The English landscape garden is richly documented in this anthology. Over 100 illustrations accompany writings that range from Francis Bacon to Jane Austin; from the early 1600s, when Englishmen began to determine their own concept and form of the garden, through the first half of the eighteenth century when its distinctive feature emerged, to the heyday of the landscape garden under "Capability" Brown and the reactions to his pure formalism under Repton and Loudon in the 1800s. This edition contains a new introduction and bibliography covering the many developments in garden history during the last dozen years.
Author |
: Kathryn Bradley-Hole |
Publisher |
: Rizzoli Publications |
Total Pages |
: 494 |
Release |
: 2019-10-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780847865796 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0847865797 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis English Gardens by : Kathryn Bradley-Hole
This is the definitive and most authoritative book ever published on the glories of English gardening--historically and horticulturally, a tour de force. An unprecedented in-depth look at the English garden by one of Britain's foremost garden writers and authorities, this book showcases the enduring appeal of the English garden whose verdant lawns and borders of colorful plants are the inspiration for garden lovers worldwide. Kathryn Bradley-Hole--the longtime garden columnist for Country Life--takes a fresh look at more than seventy gardens from across England and distills the essence of what makes the English garden style so sought after. Seasonal photographs capture the gardens--some grand, some personal, some celebrated, some rarely photographed--at their finest moments, accompanied by sparkling, insightful text. Featuring photographs from the unparalleled archives of Country Life, the full story of the English garden is here, from medieval monastery gardens to the Victorians and the Arts and Crafts movement to the twenty-first century. Designs by many of the horticultural world's greats are amply featured, including Gertrude Jekyll, Capability Brown, Piet Oudolf, and Arne Maynard, as well as gardens famous the world over--Sissinghurst, Hidcote, and Great Dixter--alongside new and less-well-known ones, many open to the public.
Author |
: John Dixon Hunt |
Publisher |
: University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2016-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780812292787 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0812292782 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis Garden and Grove by : John Dixon Hunt
Garden and Grove is a pioneering study of the English fascination with Italian Renaissance gardens. John Dixon Hunt studies reactions of English visitors in their journals and travel books to the exciting world of Italian gardens: its links with classical villas, with Virgil and farming, with Ovid and metamorphosis, its association with theater, its variety, its staged debates between art and nature. Then he looks at what English visitors made of these Italian garden experiences upon their return home and at how they created Italianate gardens on their estates, on their stages, and in their poems. With a wealth of literary and visual materials previously untapped, Hunt provides a new history of an intriguing and vital phase of English garden history. Not only does he suggest the centrality of the garden as a focus for many social, aesthetic, political, and philosophical ideas but he argues that the so-called English landscape garden before "Capability" Brown, in the late eighteenth century, owed much to a long and continuing emulation of Italian Renaissance models.
Author |
: Tom Williamson |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 202 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCSD:31822021362181 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Polite Landscapes by : Tom Williamson
Parks and gardens in eighteenth-century England are usually seen as works of art created by individual geniuses like William Kent, Capability Brown and Humphry Repton. But this narrow view wasn't necessarily shared by contemporaries, and Tom Williamson in this thought-provoking book reveals that the aristocracy and gentry, who paid for these private landscapes and lived in them, were motivated by more complex interests and needs. Landowners had strong ideas of their own about how their property should look and how it should function. The park and garden were part of a working estate consisting of farms and forestry enterprises, and the surroundings of the country house were shaped to suit the requirements of hunting, shooting, riding and other recreational activities as well as to conform to the aesthetic principles of philosophers and landscape gardeners. Tom Williamson's pioneering study concentrates on the wider social, economic and political implications of these elaborate private landscapes. He emphasizes the practical relationship between the landowners who were demanding customers and the designers who were businessmen as well as artists. In the process he shows how changing fashions in the layout of gentlemen's pleasure grounds were related to broader currents of social and economic development in eighteenth-century England.
Author |
: Christine Handley (eds) |
Publisher |
: Lulu.com |
Total Pages |
: 184 |
Release |
: 2017 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781904098652 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1904098657 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis What did Capability Brown do for Ecology? The legacy for biodiversity, landscapes, and nature conservation by : Christine Handley (eds)
This book is based on a major conference with Historic England, Natural England, the Ancient Tree Forum and others which took place in 2016 as part of the celebrations for the tercentenary of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown. The event brought together ecologists, landscape historians and archaeologists, land managers and conservationists to look critically at the impact of Brown and his successors on the UK's landscape. The book addresses the paradigms of these designed landscapes. It considers the issues around the legacy of Brown's creations and ideas and the repercussions that are still apparent today. It makes for a thought-provoking and rich discussion covering habitat conservation and creation, drainage and the release of alien species. This is the untold story of the ecology of Capability Brown and the landscape school which followed.