1st Edition
The Picturesque Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities
By John Macarthur
Copyright 2008
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
312 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Pictures 3. Disgust 4. Irregularity 5. Appropriation 6. Movement
Biography
John Macarthur is Reader in Architecture at the The University of Queensland, Australia, where he teaches design and the history and theory of architecture.
