Richard Payne Knight

Richard Payne Knight
Author: Frank J. Messmann
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2015-07-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 3111392252

Inquiry Into the Picturesque

Inquiry Into the Picturesque
Author: Sidney K. Robinson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1991-08-13
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780226722511

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.