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050 00 $aN7483.K58$bB36 1997
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100 1 $aBallantyne, Andrew.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n96030058
245 10 $aArchitecture, landscape and liberty :$bRichard Payne Knight and the picturesque /$cAndrew Ballantyne.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c1997.
300 $axiv, 315 pages :$billustrations ;$c26 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $g1.$tSetting the scene --$g2.$tBecoming ancient, becoming Greek --$g3.$tAtoms and analysis --$g4.$tSymbolical paganism --$g5.$tCivil society --$g6.$tPrinciples of taste --$g7.$tThe didactic landscape --$g8.$tA house and a garden --$g9.$tConclusion.
520 $aRichard Payne Knight (1751-1824) was a distinguished connoisseur and critic who played a very significant role in the cultural life of his day. His outlook on life, inspired by Enlightenment ideas and liberal politics, seemed reasonable to some and scandalous to others, and he was involved in some fierce controversies. In the 1790s he denounced the practice of 'Capability' Brown, who remains Britain's most admired landscape designer.
520 8 $aBefore that he had written a tract on phallic worship in the Catholic church, and later, despite being the most passionate admirer of all things Greek, he failed to recognise the merits of the Parthenon sculptures when they were brought to England, from which oversight his reputation has never recovered.
520 8 $aNevertheless Knight has serious claims on our attention, not only as someone who was in many ways characteristic of his age, but also because he built himself a remarkable house and established not only a garden but a way of appreciating landscape.
520 8 $aThis study traces for the first time the way in which Knight's thought worked across the whole range of his interests, piecing together a coherent philosophical position, based on the sensibly regulated pursuit of pleasure, which, as the nineteenth century advanced, was increasingly out of step with the tenor of the times.
520 8 $aThe study shows how Knight's ideas mesh together with each other and how, when seen against the background of the culture of the day, landscape and architecture can take on potent and even inflammatory meaning.
600 10 $aKnight, Richard Payne,$d1751-1824.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n82067521
650 0 $aAesthetics.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001441
650 0 $aAesthetics, British$y18th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88004652
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