Lady Gardeners: Seeds, Roots, Propagation, from England to the Wider World - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1803275898 ISBN 13 : 9781803275895

Editeur : Archaeopress, 2023

Synopsis

The Lady Gardeners to whom the chapters of this book are devoted are those women who, from the eighteenth century to the present day, have been working in a garden, from imagining and creating it, to sowing, planting, pruning, painting and photographing plants, and moving from garden design to more urgent themes such as landscape conservation and environmental issues. However, and this is the reason why this collection differs from other excellent models that deal with women and gardens, the essays also dwell on the personal lives and experiences of women who have lived in gardens, and enjoyed landscape, jotting simple notes in their diaries or working as landscape architects, describing it in stories for children, portraying strange exotic plants in their paintings, assembling bunches of flowers to decorate their home, and defending such spaces with their strong commitment to preservation. From England, and its long well-documented garden history, they have moved to Africa, the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, the Far East: the chapters in this book thus also confirm the vocation of the English garden that can enlarge its boundaries, transform and adapt itself to modern times and distant climates without foregoing its old roots.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Francesca Orestano, Professor of English Literature at the University of Milan, works in the areas of landscape aesthetics, garden history, Victorian and Dickens studies, art criticism and John Ruskin, the gothic and the baroque, and children’s literature. Michael Vickers is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at the University of Oxford, and Emeritus Senior Research Fellow in Classical Studies at Jesus College (where he was once Garden Master). His research interests include the archaeology, history and literature of the Greek and Roman worlds.|Francesca Orestano, Professor of English Literature at the University of Milan, works in the areas of landscape aesthetics, garden history, Victorian and Dickens studies, art criticism and John Ruskin, the gothic and the baroque, and children’s literature.|Michael Vickers is Professor Emeritus of Archaeology at the University of Oxford, an Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College, and former Curator of Greek and Roman Antiquities at the Ashmolean Museum. He was co-director of the joint British-Georgian Pichvnari Expedition 1998–2010 and co-director of the survey and partial excavation of the Roman circus at Leptis Magna in 1974.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Archaeopress
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1803275898
• ISBN 13: 9781803275895
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 182
• Éditeur: Orestano Francesca, Vickers Michael
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