The Picturesque

Author : John Macarthur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134956975

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The Picturesque by John Macarthur Pdf

In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque – when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor – in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture. In a series of linked essays Macarthur shows: what the concept of picture does in the picturesque and how this relates to modern theories of the image how the distaste that might be felt today at the sentimentality of the picturesque was already at play in the eighteenth century how visual values such as ‘irregularity’ become the basis of modern architectural planning; how the concept of appropriating a view moves from landscape design into urban design why movement is fundamental to picturing the stillness of buildings, cities and landscapes. Drawing on examples from architecture, art and broader culture, John Macarthur's account of this key topic in cultural history, makes engaging reading for all those studying architecture, art history, cultural history or visual studies.

Author : John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0262581310

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Gardens and the Picturesque by John Dixon Hunt Pdf

A collection of Hunt's essays, many previously unpublished, dealing with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes, especially with the ways in which gardens have represented the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".

Author : Stephen Copley,Peter Garside
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521441131

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The Politics of the Picturesque by Stephen Copley,Peter Garside Pdf

Essays on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ways of looking at landscape, in theory and practice.

Author : Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781606060018

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Visual Planning and the Picturesque by Nikolaus Pevsner Pdf

A previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner, much of which was published as journal articles in the Architectural Review in the 1940s and 1950s during Pevsner's term as editor.

Author : Michael Boyden
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780192868305

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Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics by Michael Boyden Pdf

The biggest challenge of the twenty-first century is to bring the effects of public life into relation with the intractable problem of global atmospheric change. Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics explains how we came to think of the climate as something abstract and remote rather than a force that actively shapes our existence. The book argues that this separation between climate and sensibility predates the rise of modern climatology and has deep roots in the era of colonial expansion, when the American tropics were transformed into the economic supplier for Euro-American empires. The book shows how the writings of American travellers in the Caribbean registered and pushed forward this new understanding of the climate in a pivotal period in modern history, roughly between 1770 and 1860, which was fraught with debates over slavery, environmental destruction, and colonialism. Offering novel readings of authors including J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur, Leonora Sansay, William Cullen Bryant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and James McCune Smith in light of their engagements with the American tropics, this book shows that these authors drew on a climatic epistemology that fused science and sentiment in ways that citizen science is aspiring to do today. By suggesting a new genealogy of modern climate thinking, Climate and the Picturesque in the American Tropics thus highlights the urgency of revisiting received ideas of tropicality deeply ingrained in American culture that continue to inform current debates on climate debt and justice.

Author : Thos. D. Murphy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368370800

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Oregon, the Picturesque by Thos. D. Murphy Pdf

Reproduction of the original.

Author : John Gibson Macvicar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Aesthetics
ISBN : BL:A0019737549

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On the Beautiful, the Picturesque, the Sublime by John Gibson Macvicar Pdf

Author : Alexander M. Ross
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780889206267

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The Imprint of the Picturesque on Nineteenth-Century British Fiction by Alexander M. Ross Pdf

"Despite the negative criticism directed at its sentiment, its heartlessness, its superficiality, the picturesque remained in both art and fiction of Victorian England a mode of seeing that even the greatest of the artists and novelists relied upon from time to time so that their viewers and readers could rejoice in the instant recognition of place and character distinctly limned and sometimes subtly enough to elicit sympathy" (Preface). After briefly tracing the development of the theory of the picturesque in the eighteenth-century writings of William Gilpin, Sir Uvedale Price, and Richard Payne Knight and examining how nineteenth-century novelists accommodated aesthetic theory to the practice of fiction, Ross focuses on the use of the picturesque in the works of Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy. The persistence of the picturesque through novels ranging from Waverley to Jude the Obscure and in writers like Dickens and Eliot, who had little respect for its conventions, attests to its strength and attraction in nineteenth-century literature.

Author : Thomas Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1835
Category : Kent (England)
ISBN : BAB:1006267596

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The Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain by Thomas Allen Pdf

Author : Valerie Derbyshire
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781622737468

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The Picturesque, The Sublime, The Beautiful: Visual Artistry in the Works of Charlotte Smith (1749-1806) by Valerie Derbyshire Pdf

This book considers the relationships between British Romantic-era novelist, poet and writer of educational works for children, Charlotte Smith (1749-1806), and a number of visual artists of the eighteenth century with whom she had connections. By exploring these associations with artists such as George Smith of Chichester, George Romney, James Northcote, John Raphael Smith and Emma Smith, the book demonstrates how the artwork of these individual artists influenced Charlotte Smith’s literary corpus. It also shows a mutual influence: how the literary works of Charlotte Smith impacted the corpora of these artists. This study uncovers information which was not heretofore known regarding these artists: it reveals a mistaken attribution of a sketch which accompanied the second volume of Smith’s Elegiac Sonnets (1797) and sheds light on a print, held by the British Museum, which was previously shrouded in mystery. The artworks also enhance the existing scholarly knowledge about Smith’s biography. This book analyses the tropes and motifs employed by Smith’s artist-associates in the context of the popular aesthetics of the period and undertakes parallel readings between such visual artistry and Smith’s literary works. The book deliberates on how Smith utilises these aesthetics as narrative devices, making use of the tropes of the picturesque, the sublime and the beautiful, as well as that of a national British heraldic artwork, in order to produce and enhance meaning in her literary oeuvre. Thus, Smith uses aesthetic structures as vehicles for social critique, commentating on political, gender, moral and class concerns in addition to enhancing the perceived authenticity of her own artistry. The scholarship aims to correct the common misperception that Smith was a lonely marginal figure of Romanticism and instead asserts her central position in an enormous network of key artistic figures of British Romanticism.

Author : Susan Glickman
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0773521356

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The Picturesque and the Sublime by Susan Glickman Pdf

Winner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize in English and the Raymond Klibansky Prize, The Picturesque and the Sublime is a cultural history of two hundred years of nature writing in Canada, from eighteenth-century prospect poems to contemporary encounters with landscape. Arguing against the received wisdom (made popular by Northrop Frye and Margaret Atwood) that Canadian writers view nature as hostile, Susan Glickman places Canadian literature in the English and European traditions of the sublime and the picturesque. Glickman argues that early immigrants to Canada brought with them the expectation that nature would be grand, mysterious, awesome – even terrifying – and welcomed scenes that conformed to these notions of sublimity. She contends that to interpret their descriptions of nature as "negative," as so many critics have done, is a significant misunderstanding. Glickman provides close readings of several important works, including Susanna Moodie's "Enthusiasm," Charles G.D. Roberts's Ave, and Paulette Jiles's "Song to the Rising Sun," and explores the poems in the context of theories of nature and art. Instead of projecting backward from a modernist perspective, Glickman reads forward from the discovery of landscape as a legitimate artistic subject in seventeenth-century England and argues that picturesque modes of description, and a sublime aesthetic, have governed much of the representation of nature in this country. Susan Glickman is a poet living in Toronto. She is the author of Complicity, The Power to Move, Henry Moore's Sheep and Other Poems, and Hide and Seek.

Author : Sidney K. Robinson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1991-08-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0226722511

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Inquiry Into the Picturesque by Sidney K. Robinson Pdf

The aesthetic mode of the picturesque has undergone so many transformations since its initial discussion in eighteenth-century England that it is hard to say just what it is. In these probing essays, Sidney K. Robinson re-examines the picturesque in its late eighteenth-century phase.

Author : John Dixon Hunt
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 050028508X

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The Picturesque Garden in Europe by John Dixon Hunt Pdf

The author traces the rise of the picturesque garden in England and throughout Europe, exploring intricate dialogues between practical place-making and the theoretical formulations of the picturesque. He surveys a wide range of sites - Rousham, Stourhead, Kew, Hestercombe, The Leasowes, Hafod, Ermenonville, Désert de Retz among others - and the contributions to their creation by both amateurs and professionals. The impact on European countries of the English example was complicated by the parallel rise of a picturesque garden in France, which had its own cultural direction even while it looked to England and China for inspiration. Finally, the book analyses and assesses the impact of English and French design upon other countries, in particular Sweden, the German-speaking lands and Russia.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1828
Category : Kent (England)
ISBN : GENT:900000218698

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The Picturesque Beauties of Great Britain : Illustrated by Topographical, Historical, and Critical Notices ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Krista A. Thompson
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780822388562

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An Eye for the Tropics by Krista A. Thompson Pdf

Images of Jamaica and the Bahamas as tropical paradises full of palm trees, white sandy beaches, and inviting warm water seem timeless. Surprisingly, the origins of those images can be traced back to the roots of the islands’ tourism industry in the 1880s. As Krista A. Thompson explains, in the late nineteenth century, tourism promoters, backed by British colonial administrators, began to market Jamaica and the Bahamas as picturesque “tropical” paradises. They hired photographers and artists to create carefully crafted representations, which then circulated internationally via postcards and illustrated guides and lectures. Illustrated with more than one hundred images, including many in color, An Eye for the Tropics is a nuanced evaluation of the aesthetics of the “tropicalizing images” and their effects on Jamaica and the Bahamas. Thompson describes how representations created to project an image to the outside world altered everyday life on the islands. Hoteliers imported tropical plants to make the islands look more like the images. Many prominent tourist-oriented spaces, including hotels and famous beaches, became off-limits to the islands’ black populations, who were encouraged to act like the disciplined, loyal colonial subjects depicted in the pictures. Analyzing the work of specific photographers and artists who created tropical representations of Jamaica and the Bahamas between the 1880s and the 1930s, Thompson shows how their images differ from the English picturesque landscape tradition. Turning to the present, she examines how tropicalizing images are deconstructed in works by contemporary artists—including Christopher Cozier, David Bailey, and Irénée Shaw—at the same time that they remain a staple of postcolonial governments’ vigorous efforts to attract tourists.