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Arcadian visions : pastoral influences on poetry, painting and the design of landscape
- Title
- Arcadian visions : pastoral influences on poetry, painting and the design of landscape / Allan R. Ruff.
- Author
- Ruff, Allan R.
- Publication
- Oxford : Windgather Press, an imprint of Oxbow Books ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2015.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFF 16-2096 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xi, 288 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color); 26 cm
- Alternative Title
- Pastoral influences on poetry, painting and the design of landscape
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-281) and index.
- Contents
- The classical origins of Arcadia -- Virgil : the house, garden and landscape -- The Christian world and Arcadia -- Venice and the pastoral landscape -- Rome and the pastoral landscape -- The Dutch Republic and the Golden Age of landscape -- Changes to the pastoral vision in eighteenth-century England -- Arcadia and the pastoral landscape realised -- The happy rural life -- The coming of the picturesque and the romantics -- The pastoral vision and the American dream -- America and religious pastoral -- Ruskin, Morris and the Garden City -- Pastoral visions of England and the First World War -- The workers' pastoral -- Arcadia revisited : the ecological landscape -- Eco-pastoral : the pastoral redefined -- Final thoughts.
- Call Number
- JFF 16-2096
- ISBN
- 9781909686663
- 1909686662
- LCCN
- 2016417469
- OCLC
- 893455685
- Author
- Ruff, Allan R., author.
- Title
- Arcadian visions : pastoral influences on poetry, painting and the design of landscape / Allan R. Ruff.
- Publisher
- Oxford : Windgather Press, an imprint of Oxbow Books ; Havertown, PA : Oxbow Books, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-281) and index.
- Local Note
- EXAMINES ARCADIA & PASTORAL TRADITION, LANDSCAPE IMPACT, RE-APPRAISAL IN 21ST CENT. DIST. CASEMATE.
- Research Call Number
- JFF 16-2096