Landscape and Vision in Nineteenth-Century Britain and France
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Co; Ashgate
Published: January 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9780754656647
Subjects: History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900; Europe; European; Art
Description: A study of the ways landscape was perceived in 19th-century Britain and France, this book draws on evidence from poetry, landscape gardens, public entertainments, novels and scientific works as well as paintings in order to develop its basic premise that landscape and the processes of perceiving it cannot be separated.