Gardens and the Picturesque: Studies in the History of Landscape Architecture
- ISBN-10
- 0262581310
- ISBN-13
- 9780262581318
- Category
- Architecture
- Pages
- 388
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1994
- Publisher
- MIT Press
- Author
- John Dixon Hunt
Description
A collection of Hunt's essays, many previously unpublished, dealing with the ways in which men and women have given meaning to gardens and landscapes, especially with the ways in which gardens have represented the world of nature "picturesquely".
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