THE PICTURESQUE. ARCHITECTURE, DISGUST AND OTHER IRREGULARITIES
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- EAN: 9781844720118
- ISBN: 978-1-84472-011-8
- Editorial: ROUTLEDGE
- Año de la edición: 2007
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 17 X 25 cm.
- Páginas: 294
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teoría: arquitectura y arte
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In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque -when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor- in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture. In a series of linked essays Macarthur shows: what the concept of picture does in the picturesque and how this relates to modern theories of the image; how the distaste that might be felt today at the sentimentality of the picturesque was already at play in the eighteenth century; how visual values such as 'irregularity' become the basis of modern architectural planning; how the concept of appropriating a view moves from landscape design into urban design why movement is fundamental to picturing the stillness of buildings, cities and landscapes.
