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020 $a9781409470045 (hardback : alk. paper)
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100 1 $aHarney, Marion.
245 10 $aPlace-making for the imagination :$bHorace Walpole and Strawberry Hill /$cMarion Harney.
246 30 $aHorace Walpole and Strawberry Hill
260 $aFarnham, Surrey, England ;$aBurlington, VT, USA :$bAshgate,$cc2013.
300 $axviii, 308 p. :$bill. (chiefly col.), plans ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [285]-295) and index.
505 0 $aPreface: Walpole moves from Strawberry Hill to Connecticut -- Introduction: ‘things come to light’: experiment and experience : the philosophical and cultural context -- ‘The pleasures of the imagination’: tropes of taste -- ‘Giving an idea of the spirit of the times’: Anecdotes and antiquarianism -- 'I am going to build a little Gothic castle at Strawberry Hill’: creation of a seat : part 1 -- ‘The art of creating landscape’: creation of a seat : part 2 -- Epilogue: ‘a genius is original, invents. Taste selects, perhaps copies with judgement’.
520 $a"Drawing together landscape, architecture and literature, Strawberry Hill, the celebrated eighteenth-century ‘Gothic’ villa and garden beside the River Thames, is an autobiographical site, where we can read the story of its creator, Horace Walpole. This 'man of taste' created private resonances, pleasure and entertainment - a collusion of the historic, the visual and the sensory. Above all, it expresses the inseparable integration of house and setting, and of the architecture with the collection, all specific to one individual, a unity that is relevant today to all architects, landscape designers and garden and country house enthusiasts. Avoiding the straightforward architectural description of previous texts, this beautifully illustrated book reveals the Gothic villa and associated landscape to be inspired by theories that stimulate 'The Pleasures of the Imagination' articulated in the series of essays by Joseph Addison (1672-1719) published in the Spectator (1712). Linked to this argument, it proposes that the concepts behind the designs for Strawberry Hill are not based around architectural precedent but around eighteenth-century aesthetics theories, antiquarianism and matters of 'Taste'. Using architectural quotations from Gothic tombs, Walpole expresses the mythical idea that it was based on monastic foundations with visual links to significant historical figures and events in English history.
520 8 $aThe book develops an argument that Walpole was the first to define theories on Gothic architecture in his Anecdotes of Painting (1762-71). Similarly innovative, The History of the Modern Taste in Gardening (1780) is one of the first to attempt a history and theory of gardening. The research uniquely evaluates how these theories found expression at Strawberry Hill. This reassessment of the villa and its associated landscape reveals that the ensemble is not so much a part of the conventionally-conceived linear progression of eighteenth-century architectural style but, rather, is an original essay in contemporary aesthetics"--$cBack cover.
600 10 $aWalpole, Horace,$d1717-1797$xAesthetics.
610 20 $aStrawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
650 0 $aAesthetics, British$y18th century.
600 10 $aWalpole, Horace,$d1717-1797$xHomes and haunts$zEngland$zLondon.
651 0 $aTwickenham (London, England)$xBuildings, structures, etc.
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