Follies in America (eBook)

A History of Garden and Park Architecture

Kerry Dean Carso (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
216 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-5595-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies—such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins—brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness.

Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations.

Autor

Kerry Dean Carso is Professor of Art History at the State University of New York at New Paltz. She is the author of American Gothic Art and Architecture in the Age of Romantic Literature. Follow her on X @kerrydeancarso.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.8.2021
• Zusatzinfo: 52 b&w halftones
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Landscape architecture in America, Kingfisher Tower, Belvedere Castle, Belfield garden temple, Newport Ruin, grand canyon watchtower,
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-5595-1 / 1501755951
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-5595-8 / 9781501755958