The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden - Beautiful Objects and Agreeable Retreats

Informationen zum Autor Roy Strong is a writer and historian , who lists as his recreations gardening and weight training. Former Director of the Victorian and Albert Museum , he is a prolific author. Klappentext Georgian landscape gardens are among the most visited and enjoyed of the UK's historical treasures. The Georgian garden has also been hailed as the greatest British contribution to European Art, seen as a beautiful composition created from grass, trees and water - a landscape for contemplation. But scratch below the surface and history reveals these gardens were a lot less serene and, in places, a great deal more scandalous.Beautifully illustrated in colour and black & white, this book is about the daily life of the Georgian garden. It reveals its previously untold secrets from early morning rides through to evening amorous liaisons. It explains how by the eighteenth century there was a desire to escape the busy country house where privacy was at a premium, and how these gardens evolved aesthetically, with modestly-sized, far-flung temples and other eye-catchers, to cater for escape and solitude as well as food, drink, music and fireworks. Its publication coincides with the 2016 tercentenary of the birth of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, arguably Britain's greatest ever landscape gardener, and the book is uniquely positioned to put Brown's work into its social context. Vorwort Published to coincide with the 2016 tercentenary of the birth of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, arguably Britain's greatest ever landscape gardener, this book is uniquely positioned to put Brown's work into its social context. Zusammenfassung Published to coincide with the 2016 tercentenary of the birth of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown, arguably Britain's greatest ever landscape gardener, this book is uniquely positioned to put Brown's work into its social context.

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Roy Strong is a writer and historian , who lists as his recreations gardening and weight training. Former Director of the Victorian and Albert Museum , he is a prolific author.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Kate Felus, Kate (Independent Historian Felus, Felus Kate
• Con la collaborazione di: Roy Strong (Prefazione), Strong Roy (Prefazione)
• Editore: Tauris, I.B.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 30.05.2016
• EAN: 9781784535728
• ISBN: 978-1-78453-572-8
• Pagine: 272
• Dimensioni: 158 mm x 236 mm x 20 mm
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Natura; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Gardening, European History, GARDENING / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Social and cultural history, C 1700 To C 1800