The Picturesque: Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities (The Classical Tradition in Architecture)

by JohnMacArthur (Author), John Macarthur (Author)

• New

  Illustrated
  2007

  $181.82

  Presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque - when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as hovels of labouring poor - in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture. This book shows: what the concept of picture does in the picturesque and how this relates to theories of the image.