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• Title:The secret life of the Georgian garden : beautiful objects and agreeable retreats / Kate Feluś.
  
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• Variant Title:Secret life of the Georgian garden : beautiful objects and agreeable retreats
  
• Author/Creator:Felus, Kate, author.
  
• Published/Created:London : I.B. Tauris, 2016.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: SB451.36.G7 F45 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Gardens, Georgian--History.
  Gardens, Georgian--Pictorial works.
  
• Description:xii, 258 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:"The Georgian landscape garden has been hailed as the greatest British contribution to European Art, It has traditionally been seen as a beautiful composition created from grass, trees and water, and perhaps a little sterile. But scratch below the surface and history reveals they were a lot less serene and, in places, a great deal more scandalous. This book about the private life of the Georgian garden reveals its previously untold secrets. 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 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."--Publisher's description.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-247) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781784535728 (hbk.)
  1784535729 (hbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: One. Introduction
  Two. Setting the Scene
  Georgian Landscapes and Georgian Life
  Three. Morning
  Tours
  Refreshments en route
  Boating
  Bathing
  Four. Afternoon
  Fishing
  Study
  Curiosity
  Amorous Liaisons
  Games & Recreation
  Five. Evening
  Food
  Drink
  Music
  Six. Night-time
  Moonlight
  Fetes
  Illuminations
  Fireworks.