'From Ham House to the Pineapples of Groombridge Place: Locating The Draughtsman’s Contract'

Broughton, Mark (2010) 'From Ham House to the Pineapples of Groombridge Place: Locating The Draughtsman’s Contract'. In: 'Art and Landscape: interdisciplinary perspectives', 2010-05-18, The Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading.

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Much has been written about Peter Greenaway’s The Draughtsman’s Contract (1982), but the film’s garden mise-en-scène has not been analysed in detail. My paper will trace its development from script to screen and discuss the ways in which Greenaway’s detailed research inflected the film’s landscape iconography. In doing so, it will present an archaeological model for analysing the aesthetics of screen landscape gardens.

Item Type	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional information	Mark Broughton, ‘From Ham House to the Pineapples of Groombridge Place: Locating The Draughtsman’s Contract'’, paper presented at Art and Landscape: interdisciplinary perspectives, Reading, UK, 18 May, 2010.
Keywords	the draughtsman's contract, peter greenaway, picturesque, groombridge place, ham house, landscape gardens, land art, structural film, art history, aesthetics, british cinema
Date Deposited	15 May 2025 17:02
Last Modified	03 Feb 2026 00:18