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Apostle Of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852
Author: Schuyler, David
Creating the North American Landscape (Paperback); Paperback; 107 Illustrations
320 pages
Published: November 1999
The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN: 0801862574
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Schuyler's excellent study of Downing's writings and career, complete with excellent illustrations and an extensive, annotated bibliography, will serve as one major starting point for future studies. -- Clifford Clark, Winterthur PortfolioBy interpreting Downing as above all an apostle of taste, Schuyler is able to weigh the relative importance of his architecture, garden designs,publishing, organizational and civic activity, even his nursery business, within a governing rubric balancing theory and practice and, most elusive of all, his public and his private self. -- RobertTwombly, Reviews in American HistoryBy interpreting Dowling as, above all, an apostle of taste, the author of this work is able to weigh the relative importance of his architecture, garden designs, publishing, organizational and civic activity. The study of his writings and career includes illustrations and an extensive bibliography.


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