Place-Making: The Art of Capability Brown - Couverture souple

Phibbs, John

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1848023561 ISBN 13 : 9781848023567

Editeur : Historic England, 2017

Synopsis

Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-1783) is the iconic figure at the head of the English landscape style, a tradition that has dominated landscape design in the western world. He was widely acclaimed for his genius in his own day and his influence on the culture of England has arguably been as great as that of Turner, Telford and Wordsworth. Yet, although Brown has had his biographers, his work has generated very little analysis. Brown was prolific; he has had a direct influence on half a million acres of England and Wales. The astonishing scale of his work means that he did not just transform the English countryside, but also our idea of what it is to be English and what England is. His work is everywhere, but goes largely unnoticed. His was such a naturalistic style that all his best work was mistaken for untouched nature. This has made it very difficult to see and understand. Visitors to Brown landscapes do not question the existence of the parkland he created and there has been little professional or academic analysis of his work. This book for the first time looks at the motivation behind Brown's landscapes and questions their value and structure whilst at the same time placing him within the English landscape tradition. It aims primarily to make landscape legible, to show people where to stand, what to look at and how to see.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John Phibbs runs his own practice in Landscape Management and is an expert on Capability Brown.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Historic England
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1848023561
• ISBN 13: 9781848023567
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 384
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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