Gardens and the picturesque : studies in the history of landscape architecture /
John Dixon Hunt.
- xviii, 388 páginas : ilustraciones, mapas .
Incluye bibliografía (p. [337]-378)
Castle Howard revisited -- Theaters, gardens, and garden theaters -- Emblem and expression in the eighteenth-century landscape garden -- Ut pictura poesis, ut pictura hortus, and the picturesque -- Sense and sensibility in the landscape designs of Humphry Repton -- Picturesque mirrors and the ruins of the past -- John Ruskin and the picturesque -- Ruskin, ´Turnerian topography,´ and Genius loci -- French impressionist gardens and the ecological picturesque -- The picturesque legacy to modernist landscape architecture -- Postscript : gardens in Utopia : utopia in the garden.