Ireland and the Picturesque
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Design, Landscape Painting, and Tourism, 1700–1840
Finola O'Kane
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Format: ClothPrice: $55.00
Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Finola O’Kane is lecturer in the School of Architecture, Landscape and Civil Engineering, University College Dublin.
“In Ireland and the Picturesque, Finola O’Kane provides a scholarly introduction to the cult of the untamed landscape that developed in Europe in the mid-eighteenth century, in reaction to the formalist design aesthetic of the Renaissance
“O’Kane’s own training as an architect enables her to appreciate underlying patterns, tensions and connections. Her narrative is full of insights, documents and detail, but can be overly mechanical, with intention sought, motivation ascribed and outputs analysed but with less discussion of poetic feeling, that quality most prized in the age of the picturesque.”—Peter Murray, Irish Times, 13th July 2013
“The two-way flow of picturesque inspiration across the Irish Sea was a complex cultural phenomenon that this study brilliantly illuminates.”—William Laffan, World of Interiors
“Those who love landscape painting will certainly take delight in Finola O’Kane’s gloriously illustrated study of the beginnings of the picturesque in Ireland”—Jonathan Edmonds, Western Mail
Publication Date: August 20, 2013
Publishing Partner: Published for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
120 color + 45 b/w illus.
