{"id":220,"date":"2014-10-03T21:52:50","date_gmt":"2014-10-03T20:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/?p=220"},"modified":"2014-10-03T22:15:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-03T21:15:11","slug":"john-dixon-hunt-the-figure-in-the-lanscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"John Dixon Hunt. The Figure in the Lanscape."},"content":{"rendered":"

John Dixon Hunt. The Figure in the Landscape, Poetry, Painting, and Gardening during the Eighteenth Century<\/em>,<\/p>\n

Pr\u00e9face \u00e0 la deuxi\u00e8me \u00e9dition 1989.<\/p>\n

\u00abIn the thirteen years since this book was first published garden history has developed with extraordinary swiftness. More documentation, especially, has been made available; more acute questions are being asked of the materials which provide the basis of garden history. The arguments of this book were being qualified even as its final stages were reached, as the original preface makes clear by quoting Shebbeare on the Italians origins of garden art. Since 1976, I have published Garden and Grove<\/em>, which was projected during the final stages of The Figure in the Landscape<\/em> and published in 1986. Garden and Grove<\/em> explored a period prior to the years covered here, reviewing the English knowledge of and fascination with the Italian Renaissance garden from 1600 to 1750 and examining how Italianate designs were translated into the English scene. So the territory of the two books overlaps, and the one written latter somewhat alters the emphases of the earlier. But that apart, the original aims of The Figure in the Lansdscape<\/em> are still relevant to the study of gardens, especially those of the English eighteenth century: for it is by a mixed approach, invoking a range of disciplines and materials, that we shall understand them better. Discussions of how literature and the visual arts joined with architecture and horticulture to create the English landscape garden are at the centre of this enquiry, and I hope that with its renewed life in paperback The Figure in the Landscape<\/em> will continue to be useful to students of this famous episode in European garden history.\u00bb
\nDumbarton OaksWashington, D. C.<\/p>\n

\u00abDepuis treize ans que ce livre a \u00e9t\u00e9 publi\u00e9,\u00a0 l’histoire des jardins s\u2019est d\u00e9velopp\u00e9e avec une rapidit\u00e9 extraordinaire. Une documentation plus importante, en particulier, a \u00e9t\u00e9 mise \u00e0 disposition; des questions plus pointues se sont pos\u00e9es \u00e0 partir des mat\u00e9riaux sur l\u2019origine de l’histoire des jardins. Les arguments de ce livre ont \u00e9t\u00e9 valid\u00e9s, \u00e0 l\u2019issue de sa r\u00e9daction, confirmant le concept des origines italiennes de l\u2019art des jardins, emprunt\u00e9 \u00e0 Shebbeare et repris dans la pr\u00e9face originale du livre.\u00a0 Depuis 1976, j’ai publi\u00e9 Garden and Grove<\/em>, qui a \u00e9t\u00e9 initi\u00e9 lors de la phase finale de The Figure in the Landscape<\/em> et publi\u00e9 en 1986.\u2028\u2028 Garden and Grove<\/em> explore une p\u00e9riode ant\u00e9rieure aux ann\u00e9es couvertes ici, reconsid\u00e9rant la connaissance anglaise du jardin de la Renaissance italienne 1600-1750 et la fascination qu\u2019il suscite, et examinant comment les mod\u00e8les (designs) italiens ont \u00e9t\u00e9 traduits dans la sc\u00e8ne anglaise. Ainsi, le territoire des deux livres se chevauche, et le dernier \u00e9crit modifie quelque peu les accents emphatiques du premier. Mais ceci mis \u00e0 part, les objectifs initiaux de The Figure in the Landscape<\/em> sont encore pertinents pour l’\u00e9tude des jardins, en particulier pour ceux du XVIIIe si\u00e8cle en Angleterre : car c’est par une approche mixte<\/span>, en invoquant une gamme de disciplines et de mat\u00e9riaux, que nous les comprendrons mieux. Les discussions sur la fa\u00e7on dont la litt\u00e9rature et les arts visuels se sont joints \u00e0 l’architecture et \u00e0 l’horticulture pour cr\u00e9er le jardin paysag\u00e9 anglais sont au centre de cette enqu\u00eate<\/span>, et j’esp\u00e8re que la vie renouvel\u00e9e de The Figure in the Landscape<\/em> en livre de poche continuera d’\u00eatre utile aux \u00e9tudiants de ce c\u00e9l\u00e8bre \u00e9pisode de l’histoire du jardin europ\u00e9en.\u00bb<\/p>\n

Commentaires<\/p>\n

\u00abBy means of a thorough reading of selected literary works, John Dixon Hunt traces the rise of the art of gardening in eighteenth-century England from a new point of view, its effect on the human mind… The Figure in the Landscape should hold the attention of any reader interested in the arts and the cultural context of literature.\u00bb Eighteenth Century Studies
\n\u00abPar une lecture minutieuse d\u2019\u0153uvres litt\u00e9raires choisies,\u00a0 John Dixon Hunt trace la mont\u00e9e de l’art des jardins<\/span> en Angleterre au dix-huiti\u00e8me si\u00e8cle d’un point de vue nouveau, celui de son effet sur l’esprit humain<\/span>… The Figure in the Landscape<\/em> devrait retenir l’attention de tout lecteur int\u00e9ress\u00e9 par les arts et le<\/span> contexte culturel de la litt\u00e9rature<\/span>.\u00bb<\/p>\n

\u00abEighteenth-century England saw the rise of a \u00ab\u00a0peculiarly English\u00a0\u00bb art form — landscape gardening — and a corresponding change in attitudes toward the natural world. While the French, who lived under tyranny, had tightly organized, restrictive gardens, the \u00ab\u00a0free\u00a0\u00bb English enjoyed gardens where they were at liberty to wander. John Dixon Hunt examines eighteenth-century letters, literary and critical works, biographies, paintings, prints, and drawings to trace the gradual movement from formal regularity toward a carefully calculated naturalness.\u00bb`
\n\u00abL’Angleterre du 18e si\u00e8cle a vu la mont\u00e9e d’une forme d’art anglais singuli\u00e8re \u2014le jardin paysager\u2014 et un changement correspondant dans les attitudes \u00e0 l’\u00e9gard du monde naturel. Tandis que le Fran\u00e7ais, qui a v\u00e9cu sous la tyrannie, avait fermement organis\u00e9 des jardins restrictifs, l’Anglais \u00ab\u00a0libre\u00a0\u00bb jouissait de jardins o\u00f9 il \u00e9tait libre d’errer. John Dixon Hunt examine des lettres du 18e si\u00e8cle, des \u0153uvres litt\u00e9raires et critiques, des biographies, des peintures, des estampes et des dessins pour tracer le mouvement graduel de la r\u00e9gularit\u00e9 formelle vers un naturel soigneusement calcul\u00e9.\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Dixon Hunt. The Figure in the Landscape, Poetry, Painting, and Gardening during the Eighteenth Century, Pr\u00e9face \u00e0 la deuxi\u00e8me \u00e9dition 1989. \u00abIn the thirteen years since this book was first published garden history has developed with extraordinary swiftness. More documentation, especially, has been made available; more acute questions are being asked of the materials … Continuer la lecture de John Dixon Hunt. The Figure in the Lanscape.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reader"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lantb.net\/figure\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}