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http://dx.doi.org/10.9715/KILA.2015.43.2.030

Modern Vision in the 18~19th Century Garden Arts - The Picturesque Aesthetics and Humphry Repton's Visual Representation -  

Lee, Myeong-Jun (Interdisciplinary Program of Landscape Architecture, Graduate School, Seoul National University)
Pae, Jeong-Hann (Dept. of Landscape Architecture and Rural Systems Engineering, Seoul National University)
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Journal of the Korean Institute of Landscape Architecture / v.43, no.2, 2015 , pp. 30-39 More about this Journal
Abstract
The English Landscape garden and picturesque aesthetics, which was in fashion during the 18th to early 19th century in England, has been accused of making people see the actual garden in terms of a static landscape painting without a synesthetic engagement in nature. As new optic devices such as diorama, panorama, photography, and cinematography were invented, ways of seeing nature transitioned from a perspective vision to a panoramic, that is, modern one. This study intends to uncover signs of this kind of modern vision in the picturesque aesthetics and visual representation of landscape gardener Humphry Repton. German garden theorist Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld contended that the English landscape garden was a new style of designing landscape that followed the principle of the serpentine line, which produced movement in sightlines; thus, he considered garden art as a superior art form among all other genres. The signs of visual motion appear in Repton's sketches of "Red Books". Firstly, he designed systemic routes in his clients' properties by considering different types of movements between walks and drives. Secondly, he often used the visual effects of panoramic views for his sketches in order to allow his clients to experience the human visual field. Lastly, he constructed sequences of sketches in order to provide his clients with an illusion of movement; in other words, Repton's sketches functioned as potential visual media to produce the duration of time in a visual experience. Thus, the garden aesthetics of the time reflected the contemporary visual culture, that is to say, a panoramic vision pertaining to visual motion.
Keywords
Landscape Garden; Christian Cay Lorenz Hirschfeld; Red Books; Panoramic View; Garden History;
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