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OverviewExplores how revolutionary ideas were translated into landscape design, encompassing liberty, equality, improvement and colonialism Spanning the designed landscapes of England’s Glorious Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution of 1776 and the Irish rebellion of 1798, with some detours into revolutionary France, this book traces a comparative history of property structures and landscape design across the eighteenth-century Atlantic world and evolving concepts of plantation and improvement within imperial ideology. Revolutionaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, George Washington, Arthur Young, Lord Edward FitzGerald and Pierce Butler constructed houses, farms and landscape gardens—many of which have since been forgotten or selectively overlooked. How did the new republics and revolutionaries, having overthrown social hierarchies, translate their principles into spatial form? As the eighteenth-century ideology of improvement was applied to a variety of transatlantic and enslaved environments, new landscape designs were created—stretching from the suburbs of Dublin to the sea islands of the state of Georgia. Yet these revolutionary ideas of equality and freedom often contradicted reality, particularly where the traditional design of the great landed estate—the building block of aristocratic power throughout Europe—intersected with that of the farm and the plantation. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Full Product DetailsAuthor: Finola O’KanePublisher: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art Imprint: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art ISBN: 9781913107383ISBN 10: 1913107388 Pages: 272 Publication Date: 27 June 2023 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviews“This is a complex but profoundly rewarding book. . . . The revolutionary reconfiguration of space and landscape can be a vital, indeed necessary, engine of progress.”—World of Interiors - “This is a complex but profoundly rewarding book… the revolutionary reconfiguration of space and landscape can be a vital, indeed necessary, engine of progress” —World of Interiors Author InformationFinola O’Kane is a landscape historian, architect, and professor at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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