Uvedale Price (1747-1829) : Decoding the Picturesque - Garden and Landscape History

Uvedale Price achieved most fame as the author of the influential Essay on the Picturesque of 1794 in which he argued that the work of the greatest landscape artists, such as Salvator Rosa, Rubens and Claude, should be usedas models for the "improvement of real landscape". His attack on the smooth certainties of Capability Brown sparked off a public controversy, drawing in Richard Payne Knight and Humphry Repton, which became a cause célèbre. This is the first biography of Uvedale Price, bringing out his contradictory and elusive character and revealing an astonishing cast of friends and acquaintances, including Gainsborough, Voltaire, William Wordsworth and ElizabethBarrett Browning. The book shows how he developed his ideas through practical experimentation on his own land and buildings and provides an understanding of the context of Price's practices and theories and the key interconnections between his roles as landowner, art collector, forester, landscaper, connoisseur and scholar. CHARLES WATKINS is Professor of Rural Geography, University of Nottingham; BEN COWELL is Assistant Director, External Affairs, National Trust.

ISBN:	9781843837084
Publisher:	Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:	The Boydell Press
Published date:	21 Jun 2012
DEWEY:	712.092
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	259
Weight:	884g
Height:	251mm
Width:	180mm
Spine width:	24mm

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