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Place-making - The Art of Capability Brown (Hardcover)
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Place-making - The Art of Capability Brown (Hardcover)
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Lancelot `Capability' Brown (1716-1783) is the iconic figure at the
head of the English landscape style, a tradition that has dominated
landscape design in the western world. He was widely acclaimed for
his genius in his own day and his influence on the culture of
England has arguably been as great as that of Turner, Telford and
Wordsworth. Yet, although Brown has had his biographers, his work
has generated very little analysis. Brown was prolific; he has had
a direct influence on half a million acres of England and Wales.
The astonishing scale of his work means that he did not just
transform the English countryside, but also our idea of what it is
to be English and what England is. His work is everywhere, but goes
largely unnoticed. His was such a naturalistic style that all his
best work was mistaken for untouched nature. This has made it very
difficult to see and understand. Visitors to Brown landscapes do
not question the existence of the parkland he created and there has
been little professional or academic analysis of his work. This
book for the first time looks at the motivation behind Brown's
landscapes and questions their value and structure whilst at the
same time placing him within the English landscape tradition. It
aims primarily to make landscape legible, to show people where to
stand, what to look at and how to see.
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