English Landscape Garden
イングリッシュ・ランドスケープ・ガーデン / 1720s–1800s / Style / Garden Styles
The 18th-century English revolution that abandoned geometry to construct nature-seeming scenery: rolling lawns, serpentine lakes, temples in the distance — pictures built out of land itself, the prototype of the public park.
Rolling lawn and lake / Temples and follies / The concealed ha-ha fence / A sequence of pictorial views
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Capability Brown / William Kent / the Picturesque debate