Landscape design & revolution in Ireland and the United States, 1688-1815:

Spanning the designed landscapes of England's Glorious Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution of 1776 and the Irish rebellion of 1798, with some detours into revolutionary France, this book traces a comparative history of property structures and landscape design across the eighteenth-centu...

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1. Verfasser: O'Kane, Finola (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art 2023
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Zusammenfassung:Spanning the designed landscapes of England's Glorious Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution of 1776 and the Irish rebellion of 1798, with some detours into revolutionary France, this book traces a comparative history of property structures and landscape design across the eighteenth-century Atlantic world and evolving concepts of plantation and improvement within imperial ideology. Revolutionaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, George Washington, Arthur Young, Lord Edward FitzGerald and Pierce Butler constructed houses, farms and landscape gardens, many of which have since been forgotten or selectively overlooked. How did the new republics and revolutionaries, having overthrown social hierarchies, translate their principles into spatial form? As the eighteenth-century ideology of improvement was applied to a variety of transatlantic and enslaved environments, new landscape designs were created, stretching from the suburbs of Dublin to the sea islands of the state of Georgia. Yet these revolutionary ideas of equality and freedom often contradicted reality, particularly where the traditional design of the great landed estate, the building block of aristocratic power throughout Europe, intersected with that of the farm and the plantation
Beschreibung:ix, 262 Seiten Illustrationen, Karten, Pläne 29 x 26 cm
ISBN:9781913107383

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