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Picturesque & the America of William Birch ‘The singular excellence of Britain for picture scenes’

Picturesque & the America of William Birch ‘The singular excellence of Britain for picture scenes’ Picturesque & the America of William Birch ‘The singular excellence of Britain for picture scenes’ john dixon hunt There is a bad press these days for the picturesque, misused or even abused in England for the English, that it is a new ‘science’ (i.e. a way of knowing) and that journalism, despised by landscape architects, so that the term has largely lost its it involves therefore a new language. It is this larger and historical concept of the usefulness and point. As one writer recently put it — ‘The ability to make picturesque that I want to explore, to provide some cultural context for the picturesque sketches was a fatal gift to the architect’! Robert Smithson thought work of William Birch before left England in 1794. A few years before his the word had ‘been struck by lightning over the centuries’, and he warned ‘timid departure, he had argued at the start of his book on Great Britain for ‘The 2 4 academics’ away from tackling such a tricky subject. Yet just to compensate for singular excellence of Britain for picture scenes’. Yet also I want to hint at the our loss of an effective picturesque we now have http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Taylor & Francis

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10.1080/14601176.2012.622436
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Picturesque & the America of William Birch ‘The singular excellence of Britain for picture scenes’ john dixon hunt There is a bad press these days for the picturesque, misused or even abused in England for the English, that it is a new ‘science’ (i.e. a way of knowing) and that journalism, despised by landscape architects, so that the term has largely lost its it involves therefore a new language. It is this larger and historical concept of the usefulness and point. As one writer recently put it — ‘The ability to make picturesque that I want to explore, to provide some cultural context for the picturesque sketches was a fatal gift to the architect’! Robert Smithson thought work of William Birch before left England in 1794. A few years before his the word had ‘been struck by lightning over the centuries’, and he warned ‘timid departure, he had argued at the start of his book on Great Britain for ‘The 2 4 academics’ away from tackling such a tricky subject. Yet just to compensate for singular excellence of Britain for picture scenes’. Yet also I want to hint at the our loss of an effective picturesque we now have

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