A01=John Dixon Hunt
Author_John Dixon Hunt
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Product details
- ISBN 9780801839368
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 26 Sep 1989
- Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a "peculiarly English" art form -- landscape gardening -- and a corresponding change in attitudes toward the natural world. While the French, who lived under tyranny, had tightly organized, restrictive gardens, the "free" English enjoyed gardens where they were at liberty to wander. John Dixon Hunt examines eighteenth-century letters, literary and critical works, biographies, paintings, prints, and drawings to trace the gradual movement from formal regularity toward a carefully calculated naturalness.
John Dixon Hunt is director of the Center for Studies in Landscape Architecture at Dumbarton Oaks. His many books include The Pre-Raphaelite Imagintion: 1848-1900, The Wider Sea: A Life of John Ruskin, and William Kent: Landscape Garden Architect.
