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O'KANE:LANDSCAPE DESIGN 18TH C. IRELAND
Finola O´kane
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Description for O'KANE:LANDSCAPE DESIGN 18TH C. IRELAND
Hardcover. A visual history of 18th-century historic landscapes in and around the Dublin Pale. Num Pages: 288 pages, 110 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; AMV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 262 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1326.
Within the walls of the demesne, the Anglo-Irish ascendancy constructed their vision of an Irish Utopia. Ideal landscapes were designed and planted out with standard temperate trees and newly introduced exotics from the Americas. Ideal cottages were built, paternalistic estate management structures developed, and complex planning and design theories indulged. Masques and plays, morally suspect in the strict Protestant ethos of the time, flourished within the enclosed world of the demesne. Robert Molesworth's radical Whig landscape influenced both Jonathan Swift and the Earl of Shaftesbury's political and aesthetic ideas. The women of Carton and Castletown employed the theatrical tradition of ... Read more
Within the walls of the demesne, the Anglo-Irish ascendancy constructed their vision of an Irish Utopia. Ideal landscapes were designed and planted out with standard temperate trees and newly introduced exotics from the Americas. Ideal cottages were built, paternalistic estate management structures developed, and complex planning and design theories indulged. Masques and plays, morally suspect in the strict Protestant ethos of the time, flourished within the enclosed world of the demesne. Robert Molesworth's radical Whig landscape influenced both Jonathan Swift and the Earl of Shaftesbury's political and aesthetic ideas. The women of Carton and Castletown employed the theatrical tradition of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781859183625
SKU
V9781859183625
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About Finola O´kane
Finola O'Kane is a lecturer in architecture UCD and her previous work has been published in the journal Garden History
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