The Arcadian Friends
Inventing the English Landscape Garden
$49.75
- Paperback
576 pages
- Release Date
15 July 2015
Summary
The true story of the invention of Britain’s greatest - and most underappreciated - art form
Between 1715 and 1750, a group of politicians and poets, farmers and businessmen, heiresses and landowners began to experiment with the phenomenon that was to become the English landscape garden. Arguably the greatest British art form ever invented, these gardens were built to charm and delight, to shock and inspire all who visited. That these gardens - including Castle Howard, Stowe, Painshil…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780593076019 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 059307601X |
| Author: | Tim Richardson |
| Publisher: | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Imprint: | Bantam Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 576 |
| Release Date: | 15 July 2015 |
| Weight: | 552g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 153mm x 25mm |
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Critics Review
Wonderfully rich and packed with vivid details… The Arcadian Friends deserves to become a classic
Wonderfully rich and packed with vivid details…The Arcadian Friends deserves to become a classic * Guardian *
The Arcadian Friends offers an invigorating new approach to familiar garden history territory. In the company of his large cast, Richardson guides us deftly through varied landscapes full of surprises. * Sunday Telegraph *
Replete with first-rate scholarship… there are many delights here * Literary Review *
Richardson explains this with verve and enthusiasm, and a measure of his success is that he makes the reader want to visit, or revisit, the gardens he describes * Telegraph *
Wonderfully engaging… This book gives us a way to read the landscape and see again what the original owners intended. * Spectator *
Scholarly, irreverent… unashamedly populist but consciously erudite * Times Higher Education Supplement *
About The Author
Tim Richardson
Tim Richardson has been writing about the English landscape garden for over 14 years. He was gardens editor of Country Life from 1995-99 and is the author/editor of The Garden Book (Phaidon), as well as author of English Gardens in the Twentieth Century (Aurum) and The Vanguard Landscapes and Gardens of Martha Schwartz (Thames and Hudson). He is also the world’s foremost confectionery historian and author of Sweets- A History of Temptation. He lives in north London.
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