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The Picturesque Architecture, disgust and other irregularities 4 Copyright 5 Contents 8 List of figures and credits 10 Preface and acknowledgements 14 1 Introduction 18 The genesis of the picturesque 20 1795 24 Price, Knight and Repton 26 The nineteenth century 30 The picturesque in modernism 32 The reception of the picturesque 34 2 Pictures 36 Painting and pictures 37 The end of fresco 45 Gilpin, the sketch and composition at large 50 Price, Reynolds and genre 57 Breadth and connection 64 Repton and the limits of the picture 65 Architecture and pictures 69 Coda: Le Corbusier and Herzog and de Meuron, or, the end of the modern picturesque 70 3 Disgust 74 Feeling and ideation 75 A dirty fellow with a dirty shovel': rhyparography and the value of disgust in art 81 Disinterestedness 86 Disinterestedness II: disgust in the republic of taste 89 A picturesque butcher's shop 93 Meat in Repton 97 The Carcase of an Ox 100 Sir Uvedale Price's theory of disgust 104 Picturesqueness and objecthood 111 The heartlessness of the picturesque: John Ruskin 113 From savageness to Brutalism and 'The Revenge of the Picturesque' 120 Everyday 125 4 Irregularity 127 The architectural plan and a sketch for

Author

John Macarthur

Language

EN