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Author Aitken, Richard.

Title Gardenesque : a celebration of Australian gardening / Richard Aitken
Published Carlton, Vic. : Miegunyah Press in conjunction with State Library of Victoria, 2004

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Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  635.0994 Ait/Gac  AVAILABLE
Description xiv, 225 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans, facsimiles ; 26 cm
Series Miegunyah Volumes, second numbered series ; no. 56
Miegunyah Press series. Series 2 ; no. 56
Contents Volition / Anne Latreille -- Ideas / Michael Leunig -- Emotions / Paul Fox -- European imagination (1800s-1810s) -- Adapting to the antipodes (1820s-1830s) -- The emigrant gardener (1840s-1850s) -- Utility and ornament (1860s-1870s) -- Rus in urbe (1880s-1890s) -- Nationalism and naturalism (1900s-1910s) -- Gay abandon (1920s-1930s) -- Velvet lawn (1940s-1950s) -- Living in the environment (1960s-1970s) -- Whitefella dreaming (1980s-1990s) -- Gardening in the republican manner (2000-)
Summary "Gardenesque is a wonderful ramble through more than 200 years of Australian gardening and garden making. Richard Aitken takes the reader on a visual tour of stunning images from the State Library of Victoria's extensive collections ...". "The diversity of Australia's gardening heritage is revealed in selections from a wide range of books, pamphlets, plans, paintings and prints".--BOOKJACKET
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references: pages 212-221
Subject State Library of Victoria -- Catalogs.
Gardens -- Australia -- History -- Exhibitions.
Gardens, Australian -- History -- Exhibitions.
Gardening -- Australia -- History -- Exhibitions.
Botanical illustration -- Australia -- Exhibitions.
Landscape gardening -- Australia -- History -- Exhibitions.
Gardens -- Australia -- History -- Pictorial works.
Gardening -- Australia -- History -- Pictorial works.
Genre/Form Catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Illustrated works.
Author Aitken, Richard.
State Library of Victoria.
LC no. 00002557
ISBN 0522851274 hardback
Other Titles Celebration of Australian gardening