The Tory View of Landscape (Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art)
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| Management number | 233653749 | Release Date | 2026/06/27 | List Price | US$23.36 | Model Number | 233653749 | ||
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This illuminating and stimulating book argues that the history of English landscape from about 1760 to 1820 reflected a struggle between proponents of a traditional natural Christian organic-or tory-view of the landscape versus those who advocated the aggressive privatizing impersonal-or whig-tendencies of contemporary "improvement". Examining literature painted and engraved images and the physical environment of the period Nigel Everett depicts a lively intelligent debate about the development of English society and the relation of people to the land. Read more
| ASIN | 0300059043 |
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| ISBN10 | 0274735415 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0274735419 |
| Edition | First Edition |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Dimensions | 10.4 x 7.94 x 0.87 inches |
| Item Weight | 2.1 pounds |
| Print length | 259 pages |
| Publication date | July 27, 1994 |
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