The Picturesque: Architecture, Disgust and Other Irregularities

John Macarthur

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In this fresh and authoritative account John Macarthur presents the eighteenth century idea of the picturesque – when it was a risky term concerned with a refined taste for everyday things, such as the hovels of the labouring poor – in the light of its reception and effects in modern culture. in a series of linked essays Macarthur shows:

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