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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Kerry Dean CarsoPublisher: Cornell University Press Imprint: Cornell University Press Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781501755934ISBN 10: 1501755935 Pages: 216 Publication Date: 15 August 2021 Recommended Age: From 18 years Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. The English Landscape Garden in America 2. Temples: Neoclassicism and the Nation 3. Summerhouses: Nature Meets Culture 4. Towers: The Belvedere and the Panoptic Sublime 5. Ruins: The Nineteenth-Century Delight in Decay ConclusionReviewsThis interdisciplinary look at the cultural and architectural history of follies in America is illustrated with examples with examples from literature, the arts, and the landscape itself. Carso gives us a broad sweep using the primary model for America, the eighteen-century English landscape garden. Less concerned with style, she grapples with the meaning of this building type, one that is at once 'recreational and amusing' but also 'didactic and enlightening. * Nineteenth Century * Follies in America delves into the history of the ornamental structures, or follies, that dotted, as some still do, many a private garden, public park, rural cemetery, or site of natural beauty in the nineteenthcentury United States * Winterthur Portfolio * This interdisciplinary look at the cultural and architectural history of follies in America is illustrated with examples with examples from literature, the arts, and the landscape itself. Carso gives us a broad sweep using the primary model for America, the eighteen-century English landscape garden. Less concerned with style, she grapples with the meaning of this building type, one that is at once 'recreational and amusing' but also 'didactic and enlightening. * Nineteenth Century * Author InformationKerry Dean Carso is Professor of Art History at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is the author of American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature. Follow her on X @kerrydeancarso. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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