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Prints and the Landscape Garden

English

By (author): Michael Symes

This book considers what prints tell us about the development of the landscape garden in 18th- and early 19th- century Britain. They formed a significant part of the expanding machinery of mass communication and could thus influence taste and spread ideas. This could lead to propaganda, or at least creation of an image the owner of a property found desirable, and reality was consequently often compromised. The illusion of actuality could be achieved by adjustments and techniques employed by artists generally. Even if not entirely representational, a print may reveal much about fashions and attitudes towards the landscape garden. At their best they powerfully convey the atmosphere of a garden as well as the perception and possible idealisation of it. The book breaks new ground, including discussion of techniques of producing a print, marketing, categories of print, and studies of the greatest engravers and a few select gardens that prints illuminate particularly well. Changes can be observed both in the developments in print-making and in the journey of the landscape garden. With 220 prints of the period to illustrate the text, all aspects of the subject are brought to the reader's attention. See more
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Product Details
  • Weight: 1g
  • Dimensions: 220 x 280mm
  • Publication Date: 10 Jan 2024
  • Publisher: John Hudson Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781739822965

About Michael Symes

The author is a garden historian concerned particularly with the 18th-century landscape garden in Britain and Europe. He has written several garden history books both general and specialised contributed many articles of academic and more popular interest and lectured at home and abroad. He has organised many study days and conferences and is currently engaged in developing links with garden historians in continental countries. Before retirement he worked at Birkbeck University of London where he established the MA in Garden History. He is President of the Birkbeck Garden History Group and a Vice President of The Gardens Trust. He has been a historical consultant for the restoration of Painshill since 1981.

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