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English Garden Eccentrics: Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries

Door Todd Longstaffe-Gowan

Categorie
Tuin & Tuinieren
Boeknummer
#426908-XQ37
Titel
English Garden Eccentrics: Three Hundred Years of Extraordinary Groves, Burrowings, Mountains and Menageries
Auteur
Longstaffe-Gowan, Todd
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Jaar van uitgave
2022
ISBN10
1913107264
ISBN13
9781913107260
Taal
Engels
Beschrijving
Original green boards, gilt lettered spine, dust jacket, decorated endpapers, numerous (full page) illustrations (including photographs) in colour and b/w, large 8vo.
Samenvatting
A highly original examination of a series of unique gardens made by English eccentrics from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries In his new book, Todd Longstaffe-Gowan looks at a series of unique gardens made by English eccentrics in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Their unusual creators--from the superstitious antiquary William Stukeley (d.1765), to the pleasure-ground proprietor Jonathan Tyers (d.1767), and the bird-loving Lady Reade (d.1811)--built miniature mountains, shaped topiary, collected animals, excavated caves, and assembled architectural fragments to realize their gardens in a way that was, and sometimes still is, thought to be excessive. Bringing together garden and landscape history with cultural history and biography, English Garden Eccentrics examines ... (Lees verder)what it is about the gardener and his or her creation that can be seen as eccentric and analyzes an area of garden history that has scarcely been previously explored: gardens seen as expressions of the singular character of their makers, and therefore functioning, in effect, as a form of autobiography. This lively and accessible book calls on gardeners today to learn from example and dare to be eccentric.
Pagina's
392
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 20,00

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