Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

288 S. Mit zahlr. auch farb. Abb. Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Umschlag berieben, sonst gutes Exemplar. - The title may suggest Monet or perhaps Bonnard, but this is a far more scholarly and focused study, concentrating on the English garden between 1540 and the 19th century. Sir Roy Strong takes us from Peake and Gheeraerts the Elder to the familiar beauty of Constable on the way introducing us to a multitude of unknown Artists. The book has two strengths. One is its emphasis on the garden, and how the concept has developed. We are shown the garden as a symbol, Edenic surrogate, as status provider, as setting, as part of a topographical survey, as series of aesthetic panoramas. The early gardens concertrate on pattern, as in the Knot gardens, meant to be seen from above, and change over the centuries into the garden as experience, meant to be walked through, to be played in. But of equal importance to the garden theme, both illustrating it and a pleasure in itself, is Strong's expertise in the artists. Although he studies works for their gardening importance, in so doing he introduces us to image upon image that give undiluted visual delight. There are paintings and prints of the seminal gardens, such as Stowe or Wilton, and also of the less famous but charming gardens at Hartwell House or Claremount. Text and illustration are splendidly aligned, and even the most urban of readers, will come to the end with a contented sigh. ISBN 9780300085204