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Follies in America: A History of Garden and Park Architecture
Paperback
General ArchitectureArchitecture HistoryLandscape Architecture
Publisher Price: $29.95
ISBN13: 9781501755934
Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr
Published: Aug 15 2021
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.50 Width: 7.70 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
Follies in America examines historicized garden buildings, known as follies, from the nation's founding through the American centennial celebration in 1876. In a period of increasing nationalism, follies--such as temples, summerhouses, towers, and ruins--brought a range of European architectural styles to the United States. By imprinting the land with symbols of European culture, landscape gardeners brought their idea of civilization to the American wilderness.
Kerry Dean Carso's interdisciplinary approach in Follies in America examines both buildings and their counterparts in literature and art, demonstrating that follies provide a window into major themes in nineteenth-century American culture, including tensions between Jeffersonian agrarianism and urban life, the ascendancy of middle-class tourism, and gentility and social class aspirations.
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