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Summary
Summary
Humphry Repton¿s Red Books have long been the subject of scholarly interest for their unique contribution to British landscape discourse around 1800. Lavishly illustrated with Repton¿s own watercolours, the notorious Red Book manuscripts were used to suggest improvements to family estates all over England, Scotland and Wales.
Through detailed analysis of Repton¿s working practices, Andr¿ogger argues that the landscape gardener¿s main artistic achievement is in the text-and-image concept of his Red Books, rather than in his grounds as finally executed. He presents the Red Books as artefacts in their own right, examining their creative potential as an entirely new genre of landscape appraisal.
Assembling a comprehensive and descriptive catalogue of 123 original volumes, Landscapes of Taste: The Art of Humphry Repton¿s Red Books guides the reader through a fascinating part of the rich texture and legacy of Georgian landscape aesthetics.
Author Notes
Andr¿ogger is Lecturer in History of Art at the Academy of Art and Design, Lucerne (Switzerland).
Table of Contents
| Introduction |
| Humphry Repton in His Times the Life Works Afterlife |
| Humphry Repton's Position in the History of English Gardening the View from Literature the Historic Reconstruction Repton's Novel Working Tool |
| The Launch of the 'Red Book' |
| The Red Books as a Genre |
| Form and Argument the Corpus |
| Locations/Descriptive Analysis the Matrix Structure |
| The Red Books in Context |
| Sources and Models |
| The Red Books and Modern Gardening the Red Books and Travel the Red Books and Drawing |
| Reading Landscape Between Drawing and Topography |
| Repton's Key Principle of Appropriation |
| An Early Manifesto |
| Tendring Hall in Suffolk (1791) Repton's Appropriation Strategies the Red Books' Defence Of Property |
| Paintings Recollected |
| The Fate of the Picturesque |
| In The Red Books A Practical Refutation |
| Attingham in Shropshire (1798) Seen from A Distance |
| The Workings of Picturesque Beauty with A Painter's Brush |
| A Morphology of the Picturesque |
| The Rule of Taste in Repton's Work |
| Maintaining Standards |
| Report Concerning the Gardens at Ashridge (1813) Taste as a Touchstone for Judgement the Return of Art to Gardening |
