WILLIAM KENT: ARCHITECT, DESIGNER, OPPORTUNIST

Talk: Tuesday 9 May, 18.00, £6/4.50

This talk from author Timothy Mowl celebrates the launch of this first full biography of William Kent, arguably England's first great designer. Mowl describes Kent as a con man who became one of the artistic geniuses of his age; a high camp Yorkshire bachelor who with his Arcadian image of the ‘English Garden’ made ‘England’s only original contribution to European culture’.

Signed copies of the biography will be on sale.

Timothy Mowl is Reader in Architectural and Garden History at the University of Bristol. He is currently writing a historic garden series of the English counties.

Part of Bristol Festival of Ideas 2006
www.ideasforbristol.co.uk

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