The Figure in the Landscape: Poetry, Painting, and Gardening During the Eighteenth Century

by John Dixon Hunt and Professor John Dixon Hunt

Book Overview

Eighteenth-century England saw the rise of a "peculiarly English" art form--landscape gardening--and a corresponding change in attitudes toward the antural world. While the French, who lived under tyranny, had a 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080183936X
• ISBN13: 9780801839368
• Release Date: August 1989
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"