Title & Author:

Bourgeois and aristocratic cultural encounters in garden art, 1550-1850 / edited by Michel Conan.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, ©2002.

Description:

vi, 384 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction: Gardens into cultural change, 1550-1850 / Michel Conan -- Mique, the architect of royal intimacy / Patrice Higonnet -- Social class and consumption. The rise and fall of gardens in the Republic of Genoa, 1528-1797 / Lauro Magnani ; Flowers of distinction : taste, class, and floriculture in seventeenth-century France / Elizabeth Hyde ; Pavilions, power, and patriotism : garden architecture at Vauxhall / Gregory Nosan ; The prospect of trade : the merchant gardeners of Bristol in the second half of the eighteenth century / David Lambert ; La Pensée bourgeoisie in the Biedermeier garden / Robert Rotenberg -- Bourgeois cultures into garden art. Bourgeois culture and French gardening in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Chandra Mukerji ; Commercial profit and cultural display in the eighteenth-century landscape gardens at Wentworth Woodhouse and Harewood / Patrick Eyres ; The culture of horticulture : class, consumption, and gender in the English landscape garden / Mark Laird ; Joseph Paxton's water lily / Margaret Flanders Darby -- Gardens, gender and public space. Sexuality and politics in the gardens at West Wycombe and Medmenham Abbey / Wendy Frith ; Gothic gallantry : Humphry Repton, Lord Byron, and the sexual politics of landscape gardening / Stephen Daniels ; Women, gardens, and the English middle class in the early nineteenth century / Heath Schenker.

Summary:

Developments in garden art cannot be isolated from the social changes upon which they either depend or have some bearing. Bourgeois and Aristocratic Cultural Encounters in Garden Art, 1550 - 1850 offers an unparalleled opportunity to discover how complex relationships between bourgeois and aristocrats have led to developments in garden art from the Renaissance into the Industrial Revolution, irrespective of stylistic differences. These essays show how garden creation has contributed to the blurring of social boundaries and to the ongoing redefinition of the bourgeoisie and the aristocracy. Also illustrated is the aggressive use of gardens by bourgeois in more-or-less successful attempts at subverting existing social hierarchies in renaissance Genoa and eighteenth-century Bristol, England; as well as the opposite, as demonstrated by the king of France, Louis XIV, who claimed to rule the arts, but imitated the curieux fleuristes, a group of amateurs from diverse strata of French society. Essays in this volume explore this complex framework of relationships in diverse settings in Britain, France, Biedermeier Vienna, and renaissance Genoa. The volume confirms that gardens were objects of conspicuous consumption, but also challenges the theories of consumption set forth by Thorstein Veblen and Pierre Bourdieu, and explores the contributions of gardens to major cultural changes like the rise of public opinion, gender and family relationships, and capitalism. Garden history, then, informs many of the debates of contemporary cultural history, ranging from rural management practices in early seventeenth-century France to the development of a sense of British pride at the expansive Vauxhall Gardens favored equally by the legendary Frederick, Prince of Wales, and by the teeming London masses. This volume amply demonstrates the varied and extensive contributions of garden creation to cultural exchange between 1550 and 1850. -- Publisher's description.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0884022870
9780884022879

Subject:

Gardens Europe, Western History Congresses.
Gardens Europe, Western Design History Congresses.
Gardens Social aspects Europe, Western History Congresses.
Middle class Europe, Western History Congresses.
Aristocracy (Social class) Europe, Western History Congresses.
Gardens Europe, Western History.
Gardens Social aspects Europe, Western History.
Middle class Europe, Western Social life and customs History.
Aristocracy (Social class) Europe, Western Social life and customs History.
Middle class Europe, Western Social life and customs.
Aristocracy (Social class) Europe, Western Social life and customs.
Jardins Europe de l'Ouest Histoire.
Jardins Architecture Europe de l'Ouest Histoire.
Jardins Aspect social Europe de l'Ouest Histoire.
Bourgeoisie Europe de l'Ouest Mœurs et coutumes.
Aristocrates Europe de l'Ouest Mœurs et coutumes.
Jardins Architecture Europe de l'Ouest Histoire Congrès.
Jardins Aspect social Europe de l'Ouest Histoire Congrès.
21.74 landscape architecture and garden design.
Giardini Europa 1550-1850 Congressi 2002.
Europa Vita sociale 1550-1850 Congressi 2002.
Congressi Washington 2002.
Middle class Social life and customs
Aristocracy (Social class) Social life and customs
Aristocracy (Social class)
Gardens
Gardens Design
Gardens Social aspects
Middle class
Gartenkunst
Kongress
Gartengestaltung
Tuinarchitectuur.
Sociale verandering.
Arquitetura paisagística (história) Europa.
Jardins (aspectos sociais)
Aristocracia (vida cotidiana)
Jardins Europe 16e siècle.
Jardins Europe 17e siècle.
Jardins Europe 18e siècle.
Jardins Europe 19e siècle.
Aristocratie Europe Moeurs et coutumes.
Bourgeoisie Europe Moeurs et coutumes.
Architecture des jardins Europe 16e siècle.
Architecture des jardins Europe 17e siècle.
Architecture des jardins Europe 18e siècle.
Architecture des jardins Europe 19e siècle.
Architecture des jardins Europe Moeurs et coutumes.
Western Europe

Form/genre:

Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
History
Congresses (form)
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Conan, Michel.
Dumbarton Oaks.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium on the History of Landscape Architecture ; 23.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 222011
Call No.: SB466.E9 B6 2001
Status: Available