An English Arcadia: Landscape and Architecture in Britain and America - Papers Delivered at a Huntington Symposium

by Harriet Ritvo and etc.

Guilland Sutherlan (Editor)

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The essays in this volume were presented at the symposium 'An English Arcadia: Landscape and Architecture in Britain and America', held at the Huntington on 26 and 27 October 1991. Contents: At the Edge of the Garden: Nature and Domestication in Eighteenth-and Nineteenth-Century Britain; Re-Reading the Eighteenth-Century English Landscape Garden; Appropriation and Adaptation: Early Gardening Literature in America; Love and Death across an English Garden: Constable's Paintings of His Family's Flower and Kitchen Gardens; Politics and the English Landscape since the First World War; The Case Study of Stowe; Discoveries, Challenges, and Moral Dilemmas in the Restoration of the Garden Building at Stowe; The Park and Garden Survey at Stowe: The Replanting and Restoration of the Historical Landscape.
  • ISBN10 087328139X
  • ISBN13 9780873281393
  • Publish Date 1 June 1993
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Huntington Library Press,US
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 170
  • Language English