The Golden Age of American Gardens
Author | : Mac K. Griswold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Gardens |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mac K. Griswold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Gardens |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mac Griswold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1992 |
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Author | : Mac Griswold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 1991-09-30 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : |
An engaging tribute to America's grand era of private estate gardens and their illustrious owners, this book sweeps across the country to present over 500 of the nation's most exquisite gardens and the people who built them. In addition to a wealth of horticultural details, we learn of the garden-maker's flamboyant private and public lives--of the gossip, parties, dreams, politics, and economic one-upmanship of the period. 280 illustrations, 130 in full color.
Author | : Priscilla Urquiola |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Landscape design |
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Author | : Martyn Rix |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2013-09-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022611984X |
The seventeenth century heralded a golden age of exploration, as intrepid travelers sailed around the world to gain firsthand knowledge of previously unknown continents. These explorers also collected the world’s most beautiful flora, and often their findings were recorded for posterity by talented professional artists. The Golden Age of Botanical Art tells the story of these exciting plant-hunting journeys and marries it with full-color reproductions of the stunning artwork they produced. Covering work through the nineteenth century, this lavishly illustrated book offers readers a look at 250 rare or unpublished images by some of the world’s most important botanical artists. Truly global in its scope, The Golden Age of Botanical Art features work by artists from Europe, China, and India, recording plants from places as disparate as Africa and South America. Martyn Rix has compiled the stories and art not only of well-known figures—such as Leonardo da Vinci and the artists of Empress Josephine Bonaparte—but also of those adventurous botanists and painters whose names and work have been forgotten. A celebration of both extraordinarily beautiful plant life and the globe-trotting men and women who found and recorded it, The Golden Age of Botanical Art will enchant gardeners and art lovers alike.
Author | : Virginia Tuttle Clayton |
Publisher | : David R. Godine Publisher |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9781567921021 |
The first four decades of this century provided the average American with the best magazines published in this country, as well as our most distinguished garden writing. The first national medium of mass communication, these journals had a formative influence on American culture. Many of their garden articles were by authors we recognize today as singularly fascinating voices: Louise Beebe Wilder, Grace Tabor, Fletcher Steele, Wilhelm Miller, and Mrs. Francis King. But some of the best were by amateurs who wrote about their gardens with wonderful enthusiasm and intelligence while earning their livings in other professions -- as artists, librarians, drama critics, dieticians, college professors, and clergymen.
Author | : Cynthia Zaitzevsky |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Brookline (Mass.) |
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Author | : Jonathan Kirshner |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2012-11-15 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0801465400 |
Between 1967 and 1976 a number of extraordinary factors converged to produce an uncommonly adventurous era in the history of American film. The end of censorship, the decline of the studio system, economic changes in the industry, and demographic shifts among audiences, filmmakers, and critics created an unprecedented opportunity for a new type of Hollywood movie, one that Jonathan Kirshner identifies as the "seventies film." In Hollywood's Last Golden Age, Kirshner shows the ways in which key films from this period—including Chinatown, Five Easy Pieces, The Graduate, and Nashville, as well as underappreciated films such as The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Klute, and Night Moves—were important works of art in continuous dialogue with the political, social, personal, and philosophical issues of their times. These "seventies films" reflected the era's social and political upheavals: the civil rights movement, the domestic consequences of the Vietnam war, the sexual revolution, women's liberation, the end of the long postwar economic boom, the Shakespearean saga of the Nixon Administration and Watergate. Hollywood films, in this brief, exceptional moment, embraced a new aesthetic and a new approach to storytelling, creating self-consciously gritty, character-driven explorations of moral and narrative ambiguity. Although the rise of the blockbuster in the second half of the 1970s largely ended Hollywood’s embrace of more challenging films, Kirshner argues that seventies filmmakers showed that it was possible to combine commercial entertainment with serious explorations of politics, society, and characters’ interior lives.
Author | : Claire Cock-Starkey |
Publisher | : Elliott & Thompson |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-02 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 9781783963201 |
The relationship between England and its gardens might be described as a love affair; gardening is a national passion, rooted in history. The e18th century is often called the Golden Age of English gardening; as the fashion for formal pleasure grounds for the wealthy faded, a new era began, filled with picturesque vistas inspired by nature. Charting the transformation in English landscapes through the 18th and 19th centuries, The Golden Age of the Garden brings the voices of the past alive in newspaper reports, letters, diaries, books, essays and travelogues, offering contemporary gardening advice, principles of design, reflections on nature, landscape and plants, and a unique perspective on the origins of the English fascination with gardens. Exploring the different styles, techniques and innovations, and the creation of many of the stunning spaces that visitors still flock to see today, this is an evocative and rewarding collection for all gardeners and garden-lovers seeking insight, ideas and surprises.
Author | : David L. Ames |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Architecture, Domestic |
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