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In his idealized yet deeply felt pastoral images, John Constable manifested a uniquely English identification with nature and rural life. This program, created from extensive Tate and National Gallery collections, explores both the aesthetic and subtly political aspects of Constable's work. Eschewing the approach of many art documentaries, the film presents detailed audio commentary from Tate curator Anne Lyles and art historians Michael Rosenthal...
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"Courts and societies across the early modern Eurasian world were fundamentally transformed by the physical, technological, and conceptual developments of their era. Evolving forms of communication, greatly expanded mobility, the spread of scientific knowledge, and the emergence of an increasingly integrated global economy all affected how states articulated and projected visions of authority into societies that, in turn, perceived and responded to...
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First published in 1893, this is a revised edition of the first substantial appreciation of Japanese gardens by a Wester author. The text has been reset and incorporates Josiah Conder's "Supplement to Japanese Gardens", which features photographs and commentary on 33 famous Japanese gardens.
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"Cecil Ross Pinsent was responsible for the design and construction of new villas and gardens such as La Foce, and the renovation of historically sensitive ones, including Villa I Tatti, Villa Le Balze and Villa Medici. Edith Wharton sought his advice; Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson were influenced by him; Geoffrey Scott dedicated The Architecture of Humanism to him; and Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe regarded him as his "first maestro on the placing...
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"At the outset of World War II, California agriculture seemed to be on the cusp of change. Many Californians, reacting to the ravages of the Great Depression, called for a radical reorientation of the highly exploitative labor relations that had allowed the state to become such a productive farming frontier. But with the importation of the first braceros--"guest workers" from Mexico hired on an "emergency" basis after the United States entered the...
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Jane has a wonderful sense of color and composition that she uses with great subtlety to describe the very essence and character of her subjects, uncovering the hidden shapes and patterns. In this film, we see her working in Brittany, Northern France where she paints views of Mont St Michel at low tide, inspired by the reflected colors in the mud, and in the fishing port of Cancale. We then follow her to Pembrokeshire in Wales where she spends several...
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"Monsters, grotesque creatures, and giants were frequently depicted in Italian Renaissance landscape design, yet they have rarely been studied. Their ubiquity indicates that gardens of the period conveyed darker, more disturbing themes than has been acknowledged. In "The Monster in the Garden", Luke Morgan argues that the monster is a key figure in Renaissance culture. Monsters were ciphers for contemporary anxieties about normative social life and...
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