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The Statues at Rousham Park - Couverture souple

Schlee, Anne

 
9780955892349: The Statues at Rousham Park
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0955892341 ISBN 13 : 9780955892349
Editeur : Academy Press, 2021

Synopsis

Rousham and its landscape garden, located in rural Oxfordshire, is one of the few gardens of the first phase of English landscape design to have escaped alteration. Informative and well-illustrated, The Statues at Rousham Park describes how the retired General James Dormer, who inherited Rousham in 1738, completed Charles Bridgeman’s garden design with the help of William Kent, but reserved for himself the choice of statues and their placement. Taken together, the statues and busts, in both lead and stone, suggest an autobiographical portrait of Dormer. Despite the gardens at Rousham being a popular local attraction, a site of pilgrimage to students of William Kent, and the backdrop to world-famous television drama including the BBC’s recent adaptation of Nancy Mitford’s 'The Pursuit of Love' (2021), this is the first publication of its kind on its statues and their surrounding landscape.

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À propos de l'auteur

Anne Schlee is a Booker Prize and Carnegie Medal shortlisted, and Guardian Prize winning, novelist whose work includes 'The Vandal' (Macmillan 1980), 'Rhine Journey' (1981) and 'The Time in Aderra' (1996). She has judged a number of literary competitions including the Somerset Maugham Award, the David Higham Prize, and the Booker Prize. She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2007.

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Éditeur
Academy Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0955892341
ISBN 13 
9780955892349
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
110
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