English Garden Arts In 18～(th) Century

From the perspectives of both theoretical analysis and practical observation, under the English context in 18th century, taking the picturesque as the base of theory, and combining the history of the letter and landscape painting, the dissertation has explored the development and movement of the picturesque concept, the features and strategies in the background of the picturesque garden. The author maintains that the picturesque being one of the English three aesthetics in the 18th century, its appearance and development had a profound cultural groundwork, in which the closest art fields are the letter and landscape painting, and the concept is"Ut Pictura Poesis". Due to the variety and complexity of the picturesque concept, the theory and practice of the picturesque garden are achieved by the effort of landscape gardeners, the amateur and the picturesque theorist. In the union of poetry, picture and gardening, three pre-dominant features are presented: emblem, expression and the dramatic. As far as the strategies of the picturesque garden, three aspects are present: the pursuit of the picturesque beauty, the interaction of poetry and landscape, and the manipulation of details for adjustment. When surveying the evolution history of English picturesque garden in 18th century at a vantage point, it may be said that the picturesque movement is not completely broken off the classicism tradition. There is not only a regression to the old tradition but also an exceeding by iconoclasm to build new tradition. The dissertation is over 170 thousand Chinese words, with 170 illustrations...