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Hunt, John Dixon.

Gardens and the picturesque : studies in the history of landscape architecture / John Dixon Hunt.

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1992.

xviii, 388 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm

A collection of Hunt's essays, many previously unpublished, dealing with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes, especially with the ways in which gardens have represented the world of nature "picturesquely".

Gardens, English -- History.

Gardens -- Design -- History.

Gardens -- History.

Landscape architecture -- History.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-378) and index.

Castle Howard revisited -- Theaters, gardens, and garden theaters -- Emblem and expression in the eighteenth-century landscape garden -- Ut pictura poesis, ut pictura hortus, and the picturesque -- Sense and sensibility in the landscape designs of Humphry Repton -- Picturesque mirrors and the ruins of the past -- John Ruskin and the picturesque -- Ruskin, "Turnerian topography," and Genius loci -- French impressionist gardens and the ecological picturesque -- The picturesque legacy to modernist landscape architecture -- Postscript : gardens in Utopia : utopia in the garden.

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