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Arcadian visions : pastoral influences on poetry, painting and the design of landscape /
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 lit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Windgather Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The classical origins of Arcadia
- Virgil: the house, garden and landscape
- The Christian world and Arcadia
- Venice and the pastoral landscape
- Rome and the pastoral landscape
- The Dutch Republic and the Golden Age of landscape
- Changes to the pastoral vision in eighteenth-century England
- Arcadia and the pastoral landscape realised
- The happy rural life
- The coming of the picturesque and the romantics
- The pastoral vision and the American dream
- America and religious pastoral
- Ruskin, Morris and the Garden City
- Pastoral visions of England and the First World War
- The workers' pastoral
- Arcadia revisited: the ecological landscape
- Eco-pastoral: the pastoral redefined
- Final thoughts.