The Modern Culture of Reginald Farrer by Michael Charlesworth

The Modern Culture of Reginald Farrer by Michael Charlesworth

The British plant-collector Reginald Farrer (1880-1920) became a Buddhist in Ceylon, and his published works contain lively and uninhibited critiques of British society and civilisation partly informed by this alternative perspective. He came to love Asia, spending four years in China, Tibet and Burma, and nine months in Japan. A moderniser in the fields of garden design and garden-writing, he made famous plant introductions, also producing novels and travel-writing, paintings and photographs. In 1917 Farrer visited the Great War's Western Front and published a book describing the emotional effect of that experience. He is very much an unknown and unsung hero of twentieth-century culture. Charlesworth explores all Farrer's activities, particularly his involvement with two strong forces within the cultural dynamics of the early twentieth century: modernism and Buddhism.

Michael Charlesworth is Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Michael Charlesworth is Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He has published research on both eighteenth and nineteenth century subjects, especially on landscape and the history of gardens. He is the author of The Gothic Revival 1720-1870: Literary Sources and Documents (2002) and The English Garden (3 vols, 1993), and has published essays on the picturesque, early photography, cartography, and the late twentieth-century artists Derek Jarman and Ian Hamilton Finlay.

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ISBN 13	9781781884140
ISBN 10	1781884145
Title	The Modern Culture of Reginald Farrer
Author	Michael Charlesworth
Series	Studies In Comparative Literature
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Legenda
Year published	2019-11-04
Number of pages	276
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