Humphry Repton: Landscape Gardening and the Geography of Georgian England

Daniels, Stephen

ISBN 10: 0300079648 / ISBN 13: 9780300079647

Edité par Yale University Press, 1999

A propos de cet article

Large format hardcover, no dustjacket, book has a small worn area at the bottom of the front cover, a small label is present on the spine and on the rear cover, the remains of a library bookplate and a library stamp are also present at front and rear, a clean copy with a tight binding and fine contents, beautifully illustrated.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Humphry Repton: Landscape Gardening and the Geography of Georgian England
• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0300079648
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780300079647
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition.
• État de l'article: Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Gardening
  • England

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Synopsis

The leading landscape gardener of later Georgian England, Humphry Repton (1752–1818), was innovative and prolific, undertaking more than four hundred commissions during his thirty-year career. Repton worked for a wide variety of clients, notably the dukes of Portland and Bedford, and on many kinds of sites throughout England. He also promoted his profession in extensive writings about the theory and practice of landscape gardening. This book examines Repton’s career and work in the context of the changing human geography of his time. Fully illustrated with many previously unpublished pictures, the book charts Repton’s vision of England, how his style changed and persisted over time and from place to place, how he influenced his profession, and how he fashioned a social identity for himself.

Stephen Daniels frames Repton’s life and work in terms of five domains: the road, the county, the picturesque landscape, the aristocratic estate, and the urban periphery. Focusing on the way these domains shaped Repton’s career and how he in turn attempted to shape them, Daniels examines in depth more than twenty representative commissions that delineate Repton’s social and spatial theory of landscape. The author casts new light not only on the work of Humphry Repton but also on the role of landscape itself in English culture and society.

Published for the Paul Mellon Center for Studies in British Art

À propos de l?auteur

Stephen Daniels is professor of cultural geography at the University of Nottingham.