Apostle of Taste
Subtitle: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852 (Creating the North American Landscape)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: September 27, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780801862571
Subjects: Biography: general; Individual architects; Landscape art & architecture; Landscape Architecture And Design; Landscape Horticulture; Architecture; Biography / Autobiography; Biography/Autobiography; Artists, Architects, Photographers; Historical - U.S.; Architecture / Landscape; Landscape
First sentence: The lead article in the June 1849 Horticulturist began with the lament of a correspondent who had just moved to a community where, he declared, the residents were completely devoid of architectural taste.