Picturesque
Taylor & Francis
In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque \u2013 when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor \u2013 in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture. > \nIn this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque \u2013 when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor \u2013 in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture. In a series of linked essays Macarthur shows: \n--what the concept of picture does in the picturesque and how this relates to modern theories of the image \n--how the distaste that might be felt today at the sentimentality of the picturesque was already at play in the eighteenth century \n--how visual values such as \u2018irregularity\u2019 become the basis of modern architecturalt
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