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Follies in America: A History of Garden and Park Architecture

Kerry Dean Carso

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Follies in America: A History of Garden and Park Architecture
Autor: Kerry Dean Carso
Assuntos: 18th century ; 19th century ; Architecture & Architectural History ; Follies (Architecture) ; Garden & Landscape ; Garden structures ; History ; United States
Descrição: 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.
Editor: Cornell University Press
Data de criação/publicação: 2021
Formato: 216
Idioma: Inglês

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