Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852 (Creating the North American Landscape)
• Johns Hopkins University Press • ISBN 9780801862571
Apostle of Taste: Andrew Jackson Downing, 1815-1852 (Creating the North American Landscape)
• Johns Hopkins University Press • ISBN-13 9780801862571
ISBN-10 0801862574
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ISBN 9780801862571 • Completeness 51
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“By 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.” -- Robert Twombly, Reviews in American History Apostle of Taste is the first full-length biography of Andrew Jackson Downing, the horticulturist, landscape gardener, and prolific…
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