{"product_id":"the-english-landscape-garden-dreaming-of-arcadia-9780711290921","title":"The English Landscape Garden: Dreaming of Arcadia","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Tim Richardson\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Frances Lincoln\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Frances Lincoln\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Landscape\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSmooth lawns, glassy pools, cool garden temples, mysterious woodland glades, evocative statuary ... the 18th-century English landscape garden offers a transcendent vision of Arcadia, a world of rich escapism peopled by gods and goddesses, young lovers and dairymaids, poets and philosophers.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This \u003cb\u003esumptuous, beautifully photographed \u003c\/b\u003evolume celebrates this quintessentially British creation, arguably its greatest artform, taking you on a tour of 20 of the finest surviving gardens, including: \u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Studley Royal (Yorkshire), a \u003cb\u003edreamy valley garden\u003c\/b\u003e which culminates with a view down and across the ruins of a Cistercian abbey \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Stowe (Buckinghamshire), the great politically motivated garden of its day, boasting the ensemble masterpiece that is William Kent's Elysian Fields \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Chiswick House (London), \u003cb\u003eLord Burlington's experiment in neoclassical architecture\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Petworth (Sussex) - of 'Capability' Brown, who eschewed the symbolism of earlier generations but created instead his own powerful vision of pastoral Arcadia \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Hawkstone Park (Shropshire), designed to elicit a thrill of fear in visitors as they \u003cb\u003etraverse rocky precipices and encounter live hermits\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e Including much new research and specially commissioned photographs, this is a book to dive into and be transported to an idyllic dream realm.","brand":"Frances Lincoln","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45037546504343,"sku":"9780711290921","price":2896.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780711290921.webp?v=1768543801","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-english-landscape-garden-dreaming-of-arcadia-9780711290921","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}