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ISBN 10: B0C5SB15QL
ISBN 13: 978-1134956975
Author: John Macarthur
In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque – when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor – in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture. In a series of linked essays Macarthur shows:
- what the concept of picture does in the picturesque and how this relates to modern theories of the image
- how the distaste that might be felt today at the sentimentality of the picturesque was already at play in the eighteenth century
- how visual values such as ‘irregularity’ become the basis of modern architectural planning; how the concept of appropriating a view moves from landscape design into urban design
- why movement is fundamental to picturing the stillness of buildings, cities and landscapes.
Drawing on examples from architecture, art and broader culture, John Macarthur’s account of this key topic in cultural history, makes engaging reading for all those studying architecture, art history, cultural history or visual studies.
The Picturesque 1st Table of contents:
1 Introduction
The genesis of the picturesque
1795
Price, Knight and Repton
The nineteenth century
The picturesque in modernism
The reception of the picturesque
2 Pictures
Painting and pictures
The end of fresco
Gilpin, the sketch and composition at large
Price, Reynolds and genre
Breadth and connection
Repton and the limits of the picture
Architecture and pictures
Coda: Le Corbusier and Herzog and de Meuron, or, the end of the modern picturesque
3 Disgust
Feeling and ideation
‘A dirty fellow with a dirty shovel’: rhyparography and the value of disgust in art
Disinterestedness
Disinterestedness II: disgust in the republic of taste
A picturesque butcher’s shop
Meat in Repton
The Carcase of an Ox
Sir Uvedale Price’s theory of disgust
Picturesqueness and objecthood
The heartlessness of the picturesque: John Ruskin
From savageness to Brutalism and ‘The Revenge of the Picturesque’
Everyday
4 Irregularity
The architectural plan and a sketch for its history
The Truth about Cottages
Cottages – neat and neglected
Irregularity in theory and practice
Cottage architecture and irregularity as technique
Familiarity
Plan-form and style
Picturesque architecture and form
Triangularity
Le Corbusier’s picturesque
Picturesque minimalism?
5 Appropriation
Repton’s theory of appropriation
From landscape and prospect to landscape and power
Ivor de Wolfe’s picturesque, or, who and what was Townscape?54
The politics of viewpoint from Civilia to Collage City
Horizontality and modern art
The franchise of architecture, or looking down with the picturesque
Postscript: sharawaggi now
6 Movement
Picturesque and Baroque
Wölfflin, malerisch and the picturesque movement-effect
Movement, space and modernity
Imitating movement
Benjamin and the non-sensuous imitation of movement
Interruption
Architecture and the picturesque
Notes
1 Introduction
2 Pictures
3 Disgust
4 Irregularity
5 Appropriation
6 Movement
Index
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