The Picturesque

The Picturesque
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 314
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781134956975
ISBN-13 : 1134956975
Rating : 4/5 (975 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Picturesque by : John Macarthur

Download or read book The Picturesque written by John Macarthur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.


The Picturesque Related Books

The Picturesque
Language: en
Pages: 314
Authors: John Macarthur
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-07 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 ref
Gardens and the Picturesque
Language: en
Pages: 414
Authors: John Dixon Hunt
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992 - Publisher: MIT Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A collection of Hunt's essays, many previously unpublished, dealing with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes, especiall
Inquiry Into the Picturesque
Language: en
Pages: 212
Authors: Sidney K. Robinson
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 1991-08-13 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 ju
The Picturesque, The Sublime, The Beautiful: Visual Artistry in the Works of Charlotte Smith (1749-1806)
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Valerie Derbyshire
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-04 - Publisher: Vernon Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book considers the relationships between British Romantic-era novelist, poet and writer of educational works for children, Charlotte Smith (1749-1806), and
The Politics of the Picturesque
Language: en
Pages: 322
Authors: Stephen Copley
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994-03-10 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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