Author: Ernest Henry WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climbing plants
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
More Aristocrats of the Garden
Author: Ernest Henry WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Climbing plants
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Aristocrats of the Garden
Author: Ernest Henry WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550-1850
Author: Michel ConanPublisher: Dumbarton Oaks
ISBN: 9780884022879
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Developments in garden art cannot be isolated from the social changes upon which they either depend or have some bearing. Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550 - 1850 offers an unparalleled opportunity to discover how complex relationships between bourgeois and aristocrats have led to developments in garden art from the Renaissance into the Industrial Revolution, irrespective of stylistic differences. These essays show how garden creation has contributed to the blurring of social boundaries and to the ongoing redefinition of the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy. Also illustrated is the aggressive use of gardens by bourgeois in more-or-less successful attempts at subverting existing social hierarchies in renaissance Genoa and eighteenth-century Bristol, England; as well as the opposite, as demonstrated by the king of France, Louis XIV, who claimed to rule the arts, but imitated the curieux fleuristes, a group of amateurs from diverse strata of French society. Essays in this volume explore this complex framework of relationships in diverse settings in Britain, France, Biedermeier Vienna, and renaissance Genoa. The volume confirms that gardens were objects of conspicuous consumption, but also challenges the theories of consumption set forth by Thorstein Veblen and Pierre Bourdieu, and explores the contributions of gardens to major cultural changes like the rise of public opinion, gender and family relationships, and capitalism. Garden history, then, informs many of the debates of contemporary cultural history, ranging from rural management practices in early seventeenth-century France to the development of a sense of British pride at the expansive Vauxhall Gardens favored equally by the legendary Frederick, Prince of Wales, and by the teeming London masses. This volume amply demonstrates the varied and extensive contributions of garden creation to cultural exchange between 1550 and 1850. -- Publisher's description.
Aristocrats of the Garden
Author: Ernest Henry WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Aristocrats of the Garden
Author: Ernest Henry WilsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardening
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
The Garden
Author: The Walled Garden
Author: Robin Farrar MaassPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1684631327
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
Perfect for fans of Agatha Christie, The Crown, and Downton Abbey. American grad student Lucy Silver arrives in England hoping to solve a longstanding literary mystery, write her dissertation, and finish her graduate studies in a blaze of academic glory. But as Lucy starts to piece together the correspondence between her late grandmother and Elizabeth Blackspear, the famous poet and garden writer who’s the subject of Lucy’s dissertation, she discovers puzzling coded references in the letters—and when an elderly English aristocrat with a secret connection to Elizabeth offers Lucy access to a neglected walled garden on his estate, the mystery deepens. As spring turns to summer in Bolton Lacey, Lucy finds herself fighting the Blackspear Gardens’ director’s attempt to deny her access to vital documents in the archives . . . and trying not to fall in love with an attractive Scottish contractor. In the midst of this turmoil, she stumbles upon an illicit plot to turn the historic gardens into a theme park, and becomes determined to stop it. As she races against time to save the gardens, Lucy’s search for the truth about Elizabeth’s life leads her to a French convent where she uncovers explosive evidence that will change her life and the lives of everyone around her, ultimately revealing a home—and an inheritance—more incredible than anything she could ever have imagined.
Old Time Gardens
Author: Alice Morse EarlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 736
Book Description
Old Time Gardens, Newly Set Forth
Author: Alice Morse EarlePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gardens
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
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