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Uvedale Price's 1794 essay on the importance of the 'picturesque' in landscape gardening and the crucial role of art.

List of contents

Preface; Part I: 1. The reasons why an improver should study pictures as well as nature; 2. Causes of the neglect of the picturesque in modern improvements; 3. General meaning of the word picturesque; 4. General distinctions between the picturesque and the beautiful; 5. To create the sublime above our contracted powers; 6. It has been doubted by some whether smoothness is essential to beauty; 7. Breadth of light and shadow; 8. On the beautiful, and on what might be termed the picturesque, in colour; 9. On ugliness; Part II: 1. How far the principles of painting have been applied to improvements; 2. Trees considered generally; 3. On the general effects of water in landscape; Part III: 'The landscape', a didactic poem.

Summary

Frustrated by what he saw as the over-grooming prevalent in British landscape gardening and associated with the work of Capability Brown, Uvedale Price (1747–1829) published this essay in 1794. He emphasises here the importance of naturalism and harmony with the surrounding environment.

Product details

• Authors: Uvedale Price, Price Uvedale
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2014
• EAN: 9781108067249
• ISBN: 978-1-108-06724-9
• No. of pages: 396
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture; Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art; ART / General, Art forms, The Arts: art forms