Follies in America: A History of Garden and Park Architecture

Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies-such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins-brought a range of European ar...

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Main Author: Carso, Kerry Dean (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2021]
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Summary:Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies-such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins-brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners civilized the American wilderness.Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)
Physical Description:1 online resource (216 pages) 52 b&w halftones
ISBN:9781501755941
DOI:10.1515/9781501755941

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