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Author Aitken, Richard.

Title The garden of ideas : four centuries of Australian style / Richard Aitken
Published Carlton, Vic. : Miegunyah Press, 2010

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 WATERFT ART&ARCH  712.0994 Ait/Goi  DUE 10-04-24
Description xi, 243 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, maps (some color), plans ; 33 x 26 cm
regular print
Series Miegunyah Press series. Series 2 ; 135
Miegunyah Press series. Series 2 ; 135
Contents Foreword -- Prologue: framing style in the garden -- Imagining the Australian garden: 1600s-1800s -- Emparking the Australian bush: 1780s-1820s -- Colonial modernism: 1820s-40s -- Botanical and horticultural virtuosity: 1830s-50s -- Planting for scenic effect: 1860s-80s -- Cities, gardens, and beauty: 1880s-1920s -- Modernism, functionalism, and naturalism: 1920s-60s -- Australian-plant gardens: 1920s-70s -- So many gardens, so little time: 1980s-2010s
Summary From the imaginings of migrant garden-makers of the late-18th century to the concerns of 21st century gardeners, this book charts its way across four centuries through a handsome and satisfying fusion of images and text. Includes an array of images - paintings, drawings, prints, plans, and photographs - most never previously published
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 228-230) and index
Subject Gardeners -- Australia -- Biography.
Gardening -- History.
Gardening -- Australia -- History.
Gardens -- Pictorial works.
Gardens -- Australia -- Pictorial works.
Gardens -- Australia -- Design.
Gardens, Australian -- History.
Landscape design -- History.
Landscape design -- Australia -- History.
Landscape design -- Australia.
Landscape gardening -- Australia -- History.
Buildings -- Australia.
SUBJECT Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- Buildings, structures, etc. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99004820 -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005024
Genre/Form Biographies.
Illustrated works.
LC no. 2010534740
ISBN 9780522857504 (hbk.)
Other Titles Four centuries of Australian style