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• Title:Place-making : the art of Capability Brown / John Phibbs.
  
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• Variant Title:Art of Capability Brown
  
• Author/Creator:Phibbs, John, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Brown, Lancelot, 1716-1783. Works. Selections.
  National Trust (Great Britain)
  
• Published/Created:Swindon : Historic England, 2017.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: SB470.B7 P45 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Brown, Lancelot, 1716-1783--Criticism and interpretation.
  Landscape architecture--England--History--18th century.
  Gardens, English--History--18th century.
  
• Genre/Form: Biographies.
  
• Description:vii, 374 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
  
• Summary:Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-1783) is the iconic figure at the head of the English landscape style, a tradition that has dominated landscape design in the western world. He was widely acclaimed for his genius in his own day and his influence on the culture of England has arguably been as great as that of Turner, Telford and Wordsworth. Yet, although Brown has had his biographers, his work has generated very little analysis. Brown was prolific; he has had a direct influence on half a million acres of England and Wales. The astonishing scale of his work means that he did not just transform the English countryside, but also our idea of what it is to be English and what England is. His work is everywhere, but goes largely unnoticed. His was such a naturalistic style that all his best work was mistaken for untouched nature. This has made it very difficult to see and understand. Visitors to Brown landscapes do not question the existence of the parkland he created and there has been little professional or academic analysis of his work. This book for the first time looks at the motivation behind Brown's landscapes and questions their value and structure whilst at the same time placing him within the English landscape tradition. It aims primarily to make landscape legible, to show people where to stand, what to look at and how to see.
  
• Local note:UBC Library has a copy donated by the British Columbia Society of Landscape Architects.
  
• Notes:"National Trust."
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781848023567 hardback
  1848023561 hardback
  
• Contents:pt. I The five elements
  2. Grass
  3. Silviculture
  4. Water
  5. Buildings
  6. Ground
  pt. II How landscapes worked
  7. Planting
  8. Farming
  9. People
  10. Fences
  11. Roads
  12. Gardens
  13. Sport
  pt. III How landscape was designed and what it meant
  14. The determinants of landscape
  15. The constraints upon design
  16. The reconciliation of house and setting
  17. Geometry
  18. Imagination
  19. Layers of meaning
  20. The evolution of the style
  pt. IV The attack on Brown and his defence
  21. The assassination of Capability Brown
  22. Towards the ending.