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Item Number: 122041
Title: Ireland and the Picturesque : Design, Landscape Painting, and Tourism, 1700–1840
Author: O'Kane, Finola
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780300185386
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, 2013. 28cm., hardcover, 229pp., 170 illus., most in color. Summary: That Ireland is picturesque is a well-worn cliché, but little is understood of how this perception was created, painted and manipulated during the long 18th century. This book positions Ireland at the core of the picturesque’s development and argues for a far greater degree of Irish influence on the course of European landscape theory and design. Positioned off-axis from the greater force-field, and off-shore from mainland Europe and America, where better to cultivate the oblique perspective? This book charts the creation of picturesque Ireland, while exploring in detail the role and reach of landscape painting in the planning, publishing, landscaping and design of Ireland’s historic landscapes, towns and tourist routes.
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