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The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720-1800 Book

The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720-1800
The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720-1800, The park of lawns, trees, and serpentine lakes in a picturesque composition of greens has long been viewed as the enduring achievement of eighteenth-century English landscape art. Yet this conventional view of the picturesque style ignores the colorful fl, The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720-1800 has a rating of 4.5 stars
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The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720-1800, The park of lawns, trees, and serpentine lakes in a picturesque composition of greens has long been viewed as the enduring achievement of eighteenth-century English landscape art. Yet this conventional view of the picturesque style ignores the colorful fl, The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720-1800
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  • The Flowering of the Landscape Garden: English Pleasure Grounds, 1720-1800
  • Written by author Mark Laird
  • Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., February 1999
  • The park of lawns, trees, and serpentine lakes in a picturesque composition of greens has long been viewed as the enduring achievement of eighteenth-century English landscape art. Yet this conventional view of the picturesque style ignores the colorful fl
  • Mark Laird offers a wealth of visual and literary materials to revolutionize our understanding of the English landscape garden as a powerful cultural expression. Library Journal Laird, a historic landscape consultant, teaches landscape
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Preface
Introduction: Locating the Georgian Shrubbery and Flower Garden1
Ch. 1The Origins of Theatrical Planting25
Ch. 2The North American Influx: A Mania for Pines and Magnolias61
Ch. 3The First Shrubberies: Circuits, Clumps, and Axiality99
Ch. 4The Role of Exotics in Early Shrubberies Great and Small131
Ch. 5Flowers in Cones, Crescents, Circles, and Conservatories173
Ch. 6Flower Gardens Before Nuneham: The Planting Palette213
Ch. 7The Shrubbery Codified239
Ch. 8Shrubberies Perfected: Professionals in the Pleasure Ground269
Ch. 9Theatrical Flower Beds and Flowering Elysiums329
Ch. 10A Flower Garden of Profusion and Luxuriancy361
Epilogue381
Notes387
Bibliography419
Index of Names and Places429
Index of Plant Names434
Permissions and Credits439


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