English Landscape: The Picturesque - Professor Malcolm Andrews

The late eighteenth and early nineteenth- century vogue for the Picturesque and for forging an English landscaping tradition (with frameable landscape scenery and managed wildness) will be the starting point for discussion.
Proponents of the Picturesque, preferring to explore British scenery rather than go on the European Grand Tour, explicitly cultivated notions of Englishness and stress the native elements in landscape scenery, such as castle or abbey ruins (real or folly) in grand gardens, not classical temples.
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[@tattoofthesun]

This is utterly fascinating and spoken so clearly. What a great presentation! It’s interesting how the people in the photos being poor increases the authentic quality the rich would like to see, including bandits or banditi. The composition of skies loyal to English atmosphere, the scraggly old trees, rock walls and ruins- all fascinating and comparable to Detroit and rust belt cities today in urban decay art

[@crashrr2993]

I’m stunned! this lecture is an intellectual revelation, delivered with such modest authority and subtle humour, so… unFrench, n’est-ce pas!

[@robinhard111]

Very illuminating, and amusing too.

[@peterdarley5161]

Excellent! Thank you for publishing this.

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