Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852
by Schuyler, David
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- ISBN 10
- 0801852293
- ISBN 13
- 9780801852299
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Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Cloth, xii, 290 pages, illustrations, maps; 25 cm. Creating the North American Landscape Ser. Published in cooperation with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Virginia. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "Apostle of Taste is the first full-length biography of Andrew Jackson Downing, the horticulturist, landscape gardener, and prolific writer on architecture who, more than any other individual, shaped middle-class taste in the United States in the two decades prior to the Civil War. Through his books and the pages of the Horticulturist, Downing preached a gospel of taste that promoted the modern or natural style of landscape design over the formal and geometric arrangements that were the hallmark of eighteenth- and early-nineteenth-century gardens. In this compelling biography, illustrated with more than 100 drawings, plans, and photographs, David Schuyler explores the origins of Downing's ideas in English aesthetic theory and his efforts to "adapt" English designs to the different climate and republican social institutions of the United States. Schuyler traces the impulse toward an American architectural style in Downing's work, demonstrates the influence of Downing's ideas on the appropriate design of homes and gardens, and analyzes the complications of class implicit in Downing's prescriptions for American society. / David Schuyler is a professor of American studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He is the author of The New Urban Landscape: The Redefinition of City Form in Nineteenth-Century America and coeditor of three volumes of the Frederick Law Olmsted Papers, the most recent of which is The Years of Olmsted, Vaux & amp; Company, 1865-1874, all available from Johns Hopkins." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
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- Title
- Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852
- Author
- Schuyler, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0801852293
- ISBN 13
- 9780801852299
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore, MD
- Date Published
- 1996
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; American / 4. Late 19th Century; Architecture / Criticism; American / 3. Neo-Classical & Romantic;
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