John Dixon Hunt examines eighteenth-century letters, literary and critical works, biographies, paintings, prints, and drawings to trace the gradual movement from formal regularity toward a carefully calculated naturalness.

Landscape architecture and garden-making have witnessed huge changes during the twentieth-century, and the impact of these will continue to be discussed and interpreted in the twenty-first.

New materials and responses…

Little attention is paid in design schools to what happens to a garden after its initial design and installation. What do its eventual uses become, and how does the design…

A highly illustrated survey of the use of words (or language) in art. Art, Word and Image asks what it means when a painting is ‘invaded’ by language - how…

This volume contains Allan Ramsay’s Enquiry into the Situation and Circumstances of Horace’s Sabine Villa . It also features essays about Ramsay, Jacob More, Jacob Philipp Hackert, the garden and…