Description
Explores how revolutionary ideas were translated into landscape design, encompassing liberty, equality, improvement and colonialism
Spanning the designed landscapes of England's Glorious Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution of 1776 and the Irish rebellion of 1798, with some detours into revolutionary France, this book traces a comparative history of property structures and landscape design across the eighteenth-century Atlantic world and evolving concepts of plantation and improvement within imperial ideology. Revolutionaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, George Washington, Arthur Young, Lord Edward FitzGerald and Pierce Butler constructed houses, farms and landscape gardens-many of which have since been forgotten or selectively overlooked. How did the new republics and revolutionaries, having overthrown social hierarchies, translate their principles into spatial form?
As the eighteenth-century ideology of improvement was applied to a variety of transatlantic and enslaved environments, new landscape designs were created-stretching from the suburbs of Dublin to the sea islands of the state of Georgia. Yet these revolutionary ideas of equality and freedom often contradicted reality, particularly where the traditional design of the great landed estate-the building block of aristocratic power throughout Europe-intersected with that of the farm and the plantation.
Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
About the Author
Finola O'Kane is a landscape historian, architect, and professor at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin.
Reviews
"This is a complex but profoundly rewarding book. . . . The revolutionary reconfiguration of space and landscape can be a vital, indeed necessary, engine of progress."-World of Interiors
Book Information
ISBN 9781913107383
Author Finola O'Kane
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Publisher Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Spanning the designed landscapes of England's Glorious Revolution of 1688, the American Revolution of 1776 and the Irish rebellion of 1798, with some detours into revolutionary France, this book traces a comparative history of property structures and landscape design across the eighteenth-century Atlantic world and evolving concepts of plantation and improvement within imperial ideology. Revolutionaries such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau, George Washington, Arthur Young, Lord Edward FitzGerald and Pierce Butler constructed houses, farms and landscape gardens-many of which have since been forgotten or selectively overlooked. How did the new republics and revolutionaries, having overthrown social hierarchies, translate their principles into spatial form?
As the eighteenth-century ideology of improvement was applied to a variety of transatlantic and enslaved environments, new landscape designs were created-stretching from the suburbs of Dublin to the sea islands of the state of Georgia. Yet these revolutionary ideas of equality and freedom often contradicted reality, particularly where the traditional design of the great landed estate-the building block of aristocratic power throughout Europe-intersected with that of the farm and the plantation.
Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
About the Author
Finola O'Kane is a landscape historian, architect, and professor at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin.
Reviews
"This is a complex but profoundly rewarding book. . . . The revolutionary reconfiguration of space and landscape can be a vital, indeed necessary, engine of progress."-World of Interiors
Book Information
ISBN 9781913107383
Author Finola O'Kane
Format Hardback
Page Count 272
Imprint Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Publisher Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
