On Modern Gardening Paperback / softback
by Horace Walpole
Paperback / softback
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"'Walpole's achievement has to be saluted all the more when it is realized that single-handedly he determined (or distorted) the writing of landscape architecture history to this day' John Dixon Hunt in Greater Perfection: the practice of garden theory"By a mile, this is the most brilliant and most influential essay ever written on English garden history.
For two centuries it mapped the whole landscape of the subject.
However, the author was partial in the highest degree.
Horace Walpole believed in progress, in modernisation, and the superiority of everything English to almost everything that had gone before.
He had a special dislike of Baroque gardens, as exemplified by Versailles, which for him symbolised absolutism, tyranny, and the oppression of nature.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:64 pages
- Publisher:Pallas Athene Publishers
- Publication Date:01/09/2004
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- ISBN:9781873429839
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:64 pages
- Publisher:Pallas Athene Publishers
- Publication Date:01/09/2004
- Category:
- ISBN:9781873429839