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Allan R. Ruff

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Description:This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of the landscape, as well as the implications this has had for its design and management. Today the concept of Arcadia, and way it has shaped our landscape, is dimly perceived and little understood by landscape architects and those responsible for the management of land. This is in marked contrast to previous centuries when the vision of Arcadia and the pastoral was implanted by education among the more privileged in society. Young men spent many hours translating and learning by rote the words of Virgil and other classical authors and on the Grand Tour they would be introduced to work of painters like Poussin and Claude and their interpretations of the Ideal pastoral landscape. Today Arcadia holds as powerful an influence as at any time in the past and it is important that we plan our urban environment in ways that harmonize with the natural world.Arcadian Visions provides an alternative landscape history for all those involved with the landscape - either through its design, management, use or enjoyment. It begins by examining the origins of Arcadia and the pastoral in the classical poetry of Theocritus and Virgil, and the effects of, and on, Christianity before outlining its development in renaissance Italy and subsequently in the Netherlands, America and England. It concludes by looking at how Arcadian ecology is bringing about a reappraisal of the pastoral in the 21st century.Table of ContentsPreface1. The Classical Origins of ArcadiaArcadia - the reality and the mythThe City of AlexandriaTheocritusVirgil and his formative yearsVirgil’s philosophyThe EcloguesThe GeorgicsArcadia and the PastoralNotes and References2. Virgil: the house, garden and landscapeLandscape and the RomansThe Location and Layout of the Villa UrbanaNotes and References3. The Christian World and ArcadiaVirgil and ChristianityPetrarch - the prophet of the new agePetrarch’s GardenPetrarch and VirgilFlorence and the Medici’sLorenzo the MagnificentNotes and References4. Venice and the Pastoral LandscapeGiovanni BelliniGiorgione and the Concert ChampetreTitianNotes and References5. Rome and the Pastoral LandscapeThe Borghese and the villa borgheseVilla Mondragone and the Pastoral Image Claude LorrainThe Grand TouristsNotes and References6. The Dutch Republic and the Golden Age of LandscapeThe Treaty of Utrecht and its aftermathThe Response to ChangeLiterature and PaintingThe Landscape in PoetryCountry Houses and EstatesHofdichten Poetry and the gardenNostalgia and a new RealismRembrandt - the master of naturalismNotes and References7. Changes to the Pastoral Vision in 18c EnglandThe third Earl of ShaftesburyJoseph Addison - the natural landscapeThe Kit Kat Club and the Pastoral DebateThe Pastoral as a critiqueAddison and the natural gardenNotes and References8. Arcadia and the Pastoral Landscape realizedLord BurlingtonJames ThomsonThe Seasons and the Georgic landscapeWilliam Kent and RoushamMacClary’s tour of the gardenNotes and References9. The Happy Rural LifeWilliam Shenstone and the LeasowesThe Circuit Walk and Virgil’s GroveReactions to the LeasowesAristocratic ResurgenceJoshua Reynolds and Landscape TasteLancelot ‘Capability’ BrownA Changing MoodNotes and References The Coming of The Picturesque and the RomanticsThe Picturesque and the Reverend William GilpinUvedale Price and Richard Payne KnightWilliam Wordsworth and the PicturesqueGrasmereWordsworth and the hard PastoralMichael - a pastoral poemJohn Constable and the soft PastoralA National IconNotes and References The Pastoral Vision and the American DreamEarly ArrivalsThomas JeffersonJefferson’s Pastoral visionEmerson and the TranscendentalistsHenry David Thoreau and Walden PondThoreau and natureJohn Muir and preservation of wildernessNotes and References12. America and Religious PastoralA New AestheticFrederic Law Olmsted and Frederic Cole - the early yearsOlmsted’s Aesthetics of Landscape SceneryA Change in DirectionThe Campaign for Public ParksCentral Park, New YorkThe Final YearsNotes and References Ruskin, Morris and the Garden CityThe Middle Classes and the pastoral resurgenceJohn RuskinWilliam Morris and the Arts and Craft movementMorris and socialismNews from NowhereEbenezer Howard and the Garden CityLetchworth Garden CityThe Development of the Garden SuburbNotes and References The First World War and Pastoral Visions of EnglandA. E. HousemanThe Georgian PoetsEdward ThomasThe First World War - a literary warEdmund BlundenWar Graves - a pastoral settingA last hurrah for the Georgian PoetsNotes and References Modernism and anti-pastoral landscapeT.S.Eliot and the ImagistsThe Modern MovementPiet MondrianCornelis van EesterenThe Amsterdam Bos ParkLe Corbusier and the Villa SavoieChristopher Tunnard and Bentley Wood...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Arcadian Visions: Pastoral Influences on Poetry, Painting and the Design of Landscape. To get started finding Arcadian Visions: Pastoral Influences on Poetry, Painting and the Design of Landscape, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: This book is about Arcadia and the pastoral tradition; what it has meant for successive generations and their vision of the landscape, as well as the implications this has had for its design and management. Today the concept of Arcadia, and way it has shaped our landscape, is dimly perceived and little understood by landscape architects and those responsible for the management of land. This is in marked contrast to previous centuries when the vision of Arcadia and the pastoral was implanted by education among the more privileged in society. Young men spent many hours translating and learning by rote the words of Virgil and other classical authors and on the Grand Tour they would be introduced to work of painters like Poussin and Claude and their interpretations of the Ideal pastoral landscape. Today Arcadia holds as powerful an influence as at any time in the past and it is important that we plan our urban environment in ways that harmonize with the natural world.Arcadian Visions provides an alternative landscape history for all those involved with the landscape - either through its design, management, use or enjoyment. It begins by examining the origins of Arcadia and the pastoral in the classical poetry of Theocritus and Virgil, and the effects of, and on, Christianity before outlining its development in renaissance Italy and subsequently in the Netherlands, America and England. It concludes by looking at how Arcadian ecology is bringing about a reappraisal of the pastoral in the 21st century.Table of ContentsPreface1. The Classical Origins of ArcadiaArcadia - the reality and the mythThe City of AlexandriaTheocritusVirgil and his formative yearsVirgil’s philosophyThe EcloguesThe GeorgicsArcadia and the PastoralNotes and References2. Virgil: the house, garden and landscapeLandscape and the RomansThe Location and Layout of the Villa UrbanaNotes and References3. The Christian World and ArcadiaVirgil and ChristianityPetrarch - the prophet of the new agePetrarch’s GardenPetrarch and VirgilFlorence and the Medici’sLorenzo the MagnificentNotes and References4. Venice and the Pastoral LandscapeGiovanni BelliniGiorgione and the Concert ChampetreTitianNotes and References5. Rome and the Pastoral LandscapeThe Borghese and the villa borgheseVilla Mondragone and the Pastoral Image Claude LorrainThe Grand TouristsNotes and References6. The Dutch Republic and the Golden Age of LandscapeThe Treaty of Utrecht and its aftermathThe Response to ChangeLiterature and PaintingThe Landscape in PoetryCountry Houses and EstatesHofdichten Poetry and the gardenNostalgia and a new RealismRembrandt - the master of naturalismNotes and References7. Changes to the Pastoral Vision in 18c EnglandThe third Earl of ShaftesburyJoseph Addison - the natural landscapeThe Kit Kat Club and the Pastoral DebateThe Pastoral as a critiqueAddison and the natural gardenNotes and References8. Arcadia and the Pastoral Landscape realizedLord BurlingtonJames ThomsonThe Seasons and the Georgic landscapeWilliam Kent and RoushamMacClary’s tour of the gardenNotes and References9. The Happy Rural LifeWilliam Shenstone and the LeasowesThe Circuit Walk and Virgil’s GroveReactions to the LeasowesAristocratic ResurgenceJoshua Reynolds and Landscape TasteLancelot ‘Capability’ BrownA Changing MoodNotes and References The Coming of The Picturesque and the RomanticsThe Picturesque and the Reverend William GilpinUvedale Price and Richard Payne KnightWilliam Wordsworth and the PicturesqueGrasmereWordsworth and the hard PastoralMichael - a pastoral poemJohn Constable and the soft PastoralA National IconNotes and References The Pastoral Vision and the American DreamEarly ArrivalsThomas JeffersonJefferson’s Pastoral visionEmerson and the TranscendentalistsHenry David Thoreau and Walden PondThoreau and natureJohn Muir and preservation of wildernessNotes and References12. America and Religious PastoralA New AestheticFrederic Law Olmsted and Frederic Cole - the early yearsOlmsted’s Aesthetics of Landscape SceneryA Change in DirectionThe Campaign for Public ParksCentral Park, New YorkThe Final YearsNotes and References Ruskin, Morris and the Garden CityThe Middle Classes and the pastoral resurgenceJohn RuskinWilliam Morris and the Arts and Craft movementMorris and socialismNews from NowhereEbenezer Howard and the Garden CityLetchworth Garden CityThe Development of the Garden SuburbNotes and References The First World War and Pastoral Visions of EnglandA. E. HousemanThe Georgian PoetsEdward ThomasThe First World War - a literary warEdmund BlundenWar Graves - a pastoral settingA last hurrah for the Georgian PoetsNotes and References Modernism and anti-pastoral landscapeT.S.Eliot and the ImagistsThe Modern MovementPiet MondrianCornelis van EesterenThe Amsterdam Bos ParkLe Corbusier and the Villa SavoieChristopher Tunnard and Bentley Wood...We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Arcadian Visions: Pastoral Influences on Poetry, Painting and the Design of Landscape. To get started finding Arcadian Visions: Pastoral Influences on Poetry, Painting and the Design of Landscape, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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