Follies in America

Dean Carso Kerry

Description

Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as "follies," from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies-such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins-brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness.Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations.

Sujets

• USA
• History of architecture
• États-Unis

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 août 2021
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501755941
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 30 Mo

Extrait

FOïES ïN AMERïCA

FOïES ïN AMERïCA

A HI STORY OF GARDE N AND PARK ARCHI T ECT URE

K e r r y D e a n C a r s o

CORNE UNïVERSïTY PRESS Ithaca and London

Copyrîght © 2021 by Corne Unîversîty

Pubîcatîon o thîs book was made possîbe, în part, by a grant rom Furthermore: a program o the J. M. Kapan Fund.

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Fîrst pubîshed 2021 by Corne Unîversîty Press Prînted în the Unîted States o Amerîca

îbrary o Congress Cataogîng-în-Pubîcatîon Data

Names: Carso, Kerry Dean, author. Tîte: Foîes în Amerîca : a hîstory o garden and park archîtecture / Kerry Dean Carso. Descrîptîon: ïthaca [New York] : Corne Unîversîty Press, 2021. | ïncudes bîbîographîca reerences and îndex. ïdentîIers: CCN 2020042662 (prînt) | CCN 2020042663 (ebook) | ïSBN 9781501755934 (paperback) | ïSBN 9781501755941 (adobe pd ) | ïSBN 9781501755958 (epub) Subjects: CSH: Foîes (Archîtecture)—Unîted States— Hîstory—18th century. | Foîes (Archîtecture)— Unîted States—Hîstory—19th century. | Garden structures—Unîted States—Hîstory—18th century. | Garden structures—Unîted States—Hîstory—19th century. CassîIcatîon: CC NA8460 .C29 2021 (prînt) | CC NA8460 (ebook) | DDC 712.0973—dc23 C record avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov/2020042662 C ebook record avaîabe at https://ccn.oc.gov /2020042663

Cover îmage: KîngIsher Tower, Otsego ake, Cooperstown, NY. Detaî rom a postcard pubîshed ca. 1937 by Chares W. Hughes, Mechanîcvîe, NY.

To Brîan, Owen, and Nathanîe and to the memory o Teddy Dean Carso

Co n t e n t s

Lîst o Iustratîonsîx Acknowedgmentsxî

 ïntroductîon  1. The Engîsh andscape Garden în Amerîca  2. Tempes: Neocassîcîsm and the Natîon  3. Summerhouses: Nature Meets Cuture  4. Towers: The Bevedere and the Panoptîc Subîme  5. Ruîns: The Nîneteenth-Century Deîght în Decay  Concusîon

Notes129 Bîbîography165 Index187

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 ï.1Vîews o Faîrmount Park (abum), Observatory, Georges Hî, Faîrmount Park  ï.2Mîddesex Cana  ï.3 Temperance Sprîng, Bremo  1.1 Montîceo: ïonîc portîco and dome  1.2Stowe: A Descrîptîon o the House and Gardens  1.3 Armsmear  1.4 Ruîns, ookîng northeast, rom Tower Grove Park  1.5Carmontee (1717–1806) Gîvîng the Keys o the Parc Monceau în Parîs to the Duke o Chartres (1747–93)  1.6 Map o the resîdence and park grounds o the ate Joseph Napoeon Bonaparte, ex-kîng o Spaîn  2.1 Womrath Pavîîon  2.2 “Montpeîer, VA: Seat o the ate James Madîson”  2.3ConederatîonTempe o  2.4Wîîam Paca(1740–1799)  2.5 A Vîew o the Faîrmount Water-Works wîth Schuykî în the Dîstance  2.6Beied Garden  2.7 Summerhouse at Mount Vernon  2.8Pamy Days at Mount Vernon  3.1Cadwe (Lake George),1838  3.2Vîew rom Cozzen’s Hote Near West Poînt, NY  3.3 “Rockery and Wîderness”  3.4 Summer House, Cockot Ha  3.5 Mark Twaîn’s study în Emîra, New York  3.6 “A Country Resîdence”  3.7 Vîew rom the summerhouse to the house  3.8 Mohonk ake Mountaîn House  3.9 “Summer House în Garden o House, S. Second St.”  4.1 Montîceo: casteated tower, [1778]

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