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.
- ISBN10 0801817951
- ISBN13 9780801817953
- Publish Date 1 December 1976
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 27 September 2010
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Johns Hopkins University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 384
- Language English