The Secret Life Of The Georgian Garden

Author : Kate Felus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Academic
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Design
ISBN : 135017159X

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The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden by Kate Felus Pdf

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 18th 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.

Author : Kate Felus
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786730077

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The Secret Life of the Georgian Garden by Kate Felus Pdf

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.

Author : Gudrun Andersson,Jon Stobart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2021-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000425727

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Daily Lives and Daily Routines in the Long Eighteenth Century by Gudrun Andersson,Jon Stobart Pdf

This book explores the ways in which the lives and routines of a wide range of people across different parts of Europe and the wider world were structured and played out through everyday practices. It focuses on the detail of individual lives and how these were shaped by spaces and places, by movement and material culture – both the buildings they occupied and the objects they used in their everyday lives. Drawing on original research by a range of established and emerging scholars, each chapter peers into the lives of people from various social groups as they went about their daily lives, from citizens on the streets to aristocrats at home in their country houses, and from the urban elite at leisure to seamen on board ships bound for the East Indies. For all these people, daily routines were important in structuring their lives, giving them a rhythm that was knowable and meaningful in its temporal regularity, be that daily, weekly, or seasonal. So too were their everyday encounters and relationships with other people, within and beyond the home; these shaped their practices, movements, and identities and thus served to mould society in a broader sense.

Author : Clare Hickman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300236101

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The Doctor's Garden by Clare Hickman Pdf

A richly illustrated exploration of how late Georgian gardens associated with medical practitioners advanced science, education, and agricultural experimentation As Britain grew into an ever-expanding empire during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, new and exotic botanical specimens began to arrive within the nation's public and private spaces. Gardens became sites not just of leisure, sport, and aesthetic enjoyment, but also of scientific inquiry and knowledge dissemination. Medical practitioners used their botanical training to capitalize on the growing fashion for botanical collecting and agricultural experimentation in institutional, semipublic, and private gardens across Britain. This book highlights the role of these medical practitioners in the changing use of gardens in the late Georgian period, marked by a fluidity among the ideas of farm, laboratory, museum, and garden. Placing these activities within a wider framework of fashionable, scientific, and economic interests of the time, historian Clare Hickman argues that gardens shifted from predominately static places of enjoyment to key gathering places for improvement, knowledge sharing, and scientific exploration.

Author : Wendy Bishop
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000391626

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Ornamental Lakes by Wendy Bishop Pdf

Ornamental Lakes traces the history of lakes in England, from their appearance in the early eighteenth century, through their development in the 1750s, and finally to their decline in the nineteenth century. Aside from the natural lakes in the Lake District, the bodies of water we see in England today are man-made, primarily intended to ornament the landscapes of the upper classes. Through detailed research, author Wendy Bishop argues that, contrary to accepted thinking, the development of lakes led to the dissolution of formal landscapes rather than following changes in landscape design. Providing a comprehensive overview of lakes in England, including data on who made these lakes, how, and when, it additionally covers fishponds, water gardens, cascades and reservoirs. Richly illustrated and accompanied by case studies across the region, this book offers new insights in landscape history for students, researchers and those interested in how landscapes evolve.

Author : Tom Williamson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781789143003

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Humphry Repton by Tom Williamson Pdf

Humphry Repton (1752–1818) remains one of England’s most interesting and prolific garden and landscape designers. Renowned for his innovative design proposals and distinctive before-and-after images, captured in his famous “Red Books,” Repton’s astonishing career represents the link between the simple parklands of his predecessor Capability Brown and the more elaborate, structured, and formal landscapes of the Victorian age. This lavishly illustrated book, based on a wealth of new research, reinterprets Repton’s life, working methods, and designs, and examines why they proved so popular in a rapidly changing world.

Author : Linda A. Chisholm
Publisher : Timber Press
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-10
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781604695298

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The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens by Linda A. Chisholm Pdf

“Rich with photographs and descriptions of how landscape design has shaped and reflected culture over time.” —The American Gardener The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens explores the defining moments in garden design. Through profiles of 100 of the most influential gardens, Linda Chisholm explores how social, political, and economic influences shaped garden design principles. The book is organized chronologically and by theme, starting with the medieval garden Alhambra and ending with the modern naturalism of the Lurie Garden. Sumptuously illustrated, The History of Landscape Design in 100 Gardens is a comprehensive resource for garden designers and landscape architects, design students, and garden history enthusiasts.

Author : Charlotte Gould,Sophie Mesplède
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-21
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000408218

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British Art and the Environment by Charlotte Gould,Sophie Mesplède Pdf

This book explores the nature of Britain-based artists’ engagement with the transformations of their environment since the early days of the Industrial Revolution. At a time of pressing ecological concerns, the international group of contributors provide a series of case studies that reconsider the nature–culture divide and aim at identifying the contours of a national narrative that stretches from enclosed lands to rising seas. By adopting a longer historical view, this book hopes to enrich current debates concerning art’s engagement with recording and questioning the impact of human activity on the environment. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, contemporary art, environmental humanities, and British studies.

Author : Caroline Dakers
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787350458

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Fonthill Recovered by Caroline Dakers Pdf

Fonthill, in Wiltshire, is traditionally associated with the writer and collector William Beckford who built his Gothic fantasy house called Fonthill Abbey at the end of the eighteenth century. The collapse of the Abbey’s tower in 1825 transformed the name Fonthill into a symbol for overarching ambition and folly, a sublime ruin. Fonthill is, however, much more than the story of one man’s excesses. Beckford’s Abbey is only one of several important houses to be built on the estate since the early sixteenth century, all of them eventually consumed by fire or deliberately demolished, and all of them oddly forgotten by historians. Little now remains: a tower, a stable block, a kitchen range, some dressed stone, an indentation in a field. Fonthill Recovered draws on histories of art and architecture, politics and economics to explore the rich cultural history of this famous Wiltshire estate. The first half of the book traces the occupation of Fonthill from the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century. Some of the owners surpassed Beckford in terms of their wealth, their collections, their political power and even, in one case, their sexual misdemeanours. They include Charles I’s Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the richest commoner in the nineteenth century. The second half of the book consists of essays on specific topics, filling out such crucial areas as the complex history of the designed landscape, the sources of the Beckfords’ wealth and their collections, and one essay that features the most recent appearance of the Abbey in a video game.

Author : Alan Titchmarsh
Publisher : Random House
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-25
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781448141340

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My Secret Garden by Alan Titchmarsh Pdf

After moving from the Barleywood garden where he hosted BBC Gardeners' World for seven years, Alan Titchmarsh set up home in an old farmhouse a few miles down the road, and went about planting his own private eden away from the public eye. In this horticultural memoir Alan finally reveals all about this secret garden, explaining with his trademark warmth the personal stories behind its design and evolution. Accompanied by beautiful photographs taken by Jonathan Buckley throughout the eight years in which the garden has been made, My Secret Garden allows us access to all of the successes and failures of this diverse and ambitious project. Comprising many different styles and spaces - from an acre of formal beds and ponds to wild flower meadows and a stunning winter garden - Alan's tales of development and cultivation will be applicable to all gardeners. With the plot encompassing fruit trees, a handsome greenhouse and wildlife-friendly plantings, gardeners of all styles and levels of expertise will find something to enjoy. Driven by Alan's infectious and informative style, My Secret Garden is a fascinating, amusing and inspiring book.

Author : Maggie O'Neill,Brian Roberts
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317295020

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Walking Methods by Maggie O'Neill,Brian Roberts Pdf

This book introduces and critically explores walking as an innovative method for doing social research, showing how its sensate and kinaesthetic attributes facilitate connections with lived experiences, journeys and memories, communities and identities. The book situates walking methods historically, sociologically, and in relation to biographical and arts-based research, as well as new work on mobilities, the digital, spatial, and the sensory. The book is organised into three sections: theorising; experiencing; and imagining walking as a new method for doing biographical research. There is a key focus upon the Walking Interview as a Biographical Method (WIBM) on the move to usefully explore migration, memory, and urban landscapes, as part of participatory, visual, and ethnographic research with marginalised communities and artists and as re-formative and transgressive. The book concludes with autobiographical walks taken by the authors and a discussion about the future of the walking interview as biographical method. Walking Methods combines theory with a series of original ethnographic and participatory research examples. Practical exercises and a guide to using walking as a method help to make this a rich resource for social science researchers, students, walking artists, and biographical researchers.

Author : Michael Symes
Publisher : Redcliffe Press Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Gardens
ISBN : 1908326093

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The Picturesque and the Later Georgian Garden by Michael Symes Pdf

Author : Sue Shephard
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781408837740

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Seeds of Fortune by Sue Shephard Pdf

For over a century, and across five generations, the Veitch family pioneered the introduction of hundreds of new plants into gardens, conservatories and houses and were amongst the foremost European cultivators and hybridisers of their day. The story begins in 1768 when a Scotsman called John Veitch came to England to find his fortune, starting out as a gardener for the aristocracy. Realising that horticultural mania had begun to spread throughout the social classes, John's son, James, opened a nursery in Exeter and began to send some of the first commercial plant collectors into the Americas, Australia, India, Japan, China and the South Seas. By the beginning of the twentieth century, the Veitch's had become key figures within the gardening establishment, involved with the Royal Horticultural Society from its beginnings and the great Chelsea Flower Show. Combining an historian's eye for detail with a flair for storytelling, Shephard charts the fortunes of one family and through them tells the fascinating story of the modern English garden.

Author : David Jacques
Publisher : Timber Press (OR)
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Gardens, English
ISBN : WISC:89011327467

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Georgian Gardens by David Jacques Pdf

Author : Anne Jennings
Publisher : Historic England Press
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Gardening
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026562657

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Georgian Gardens by Anne Jennings Pdf

The trend in Georgian gardens was to sweep away the formal style of the 17th century in favour of more naturalistic landscapes but this book shows that not all Georgian gardens were the grand projects of landscapers like Capability Brown. The owners of Georgian town houses took equal interest in their gardens.