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Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934) Was One Of The Premier Figures In Landscape Writing And Design At The Turn Of The Twentieth Century, A Moment When The Amateur Pursuit Of Gardening And The Increasingly Professionalized Landscape Design Field Were Beginning To Diverge. This Intellectual Biography--the First In-depth Study Of The Versatile Critic And Author--reveals Van Rensselaer's Vital Role In This Moment In The History Of Landscape Architecture. Van Rensselaer Was One Of The New Breed Of American Art And Architecture Critics, Closely Examining The Nature Of Her Profession And Bringing A Disciplined Scholarship To The Craft. She Considered Herself A Professional, Leading The Effort Among Women In The Gilded Age To Claim The Titles Of Artist, Architect, Critic, Historian, And Journalist. Thanks To The Resources Of Her Wealthy Mercantile Family, She Had Been Given A Sophisticated European Education Almost Unheard Of For A Woman Of Her Time. Her Close Relationship With Frederick Law Olmsted Influenced Her Ideas On Landscape Gardening, And Her Interest In Botany And Geology Shaped The Ideas Upon Which Her Philosophy And Art Criticism Were Based. She Also Studied The Works O

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Author

Griswold van Rensselaer, Mariana;Major, Judith K.;Van Rensselaer, Schuyler

Publisher

University Of Virginia Press,

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813933924

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Architecture, History