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The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession
The Lawn A History of an American Obsession
Author: Virginia Scott Jenkins
In the 18th-century English landscape, a folly was an extravagant building or ruin. In the 20th-century American landscape, the folly had to be the lawn. Jenkins's account gets off to a slightly slow start as she follows the lawn from its earliest beginnings as a simplified version of English romantic parks in the 19th century to the smooth ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781560984061
ISBN-10: 1560984066
Publication Date: 4/17/1994
Pages: 246
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Publisher: Smithsonian Books
Book Type: Paperback
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