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This interdisciplinary look at the cultural and architectural history of follies in America is illustrated with examples with examples from literature, the arts, and the landscape itself. Carso gives us a broad sweep using the primary model for America, the eighteen-century English landscape garden. Less concerned with style, she grapples with the meaning of this building type, one that is at once 'recreational and amusing' but also 'didactic and enlightening.

* Nineteenth Century *

Follies in America delves into the history of the ornamental structures, or follies, that dotted, as some still do, many a private garden, public park, rural cemetery, or site of natural beauty in the nineteenthcentury United States

* Winterthur Portfolio *

Table of Contents

Introduction
1. The English Landscape Garden in America
2. Temples: Neoclassicism and the Nation
3. Summerhouses: Nature Meets Culture
4. Towers: The Belvedere and the Panoptic Sublime
5. Ruins: The Nineteenth-Century Delight in Decay
Conclusion

Follies in America A History of Garden and Park

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      Publisher: Cornell University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/08/2021
      ISBN13: 9781501755934, 978-1501755934
      ISBN10: 1501755935
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      This interdisciplinary look at the cultural and architectural history of follies in America is illustrated with examples with examples from literature, the arts, and the landscape itself. Carso gives us a broad sweep using the primary model for America, the eighteen-century English landscape garden. Less concerned with style, she grapples with the meaning of this building type, one that is at once 'recreational and amusing' but also 'didactic and enlightening.

      * Nineteenth Century *

      Follies in America delves into the history of the ornamental structures, or follies, that dotted, as some still do, many a private garden, public park, rural cemetery, or site of natural beauty in the nineteenthcentury United States

      * Winterthur Portfolio *

      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. The English Landscape Garden in America
      2. Temples: Neoclassicism and the Nation
      3. Summerhouses: Nature Meets Culture
      4. Towers: The Belvedere and the Panoptic Sublime
      5. Ruins: The Nineteenth-Century Delight in Decay
      Conclusion

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