Synopses & Reviews
The aesthetic mode of the picturesque has undergone so many transformations since its initial discussion in eighteenth-century England that it is hard to say just what it is. In these probing essays, Sidney K. Robinson re-examines the picturesque in its late eighteenth-century phase.
Synopsis
A pattern of composition that requires continuous enactment and review, a category in the middle that redefines itself as time passes, as situations change, as context alters, is not restful, but irritating. One of the ways to short-circuit its inherently challenging nature is to reduce its impact to the retina. The Picturesque is easily appropriated to make it consumable.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Mixture
Pastoral
Compositions of Politics and Money
Liberty Not License
Artifice
Connection
Prospect
Notes
Bibliography