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Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer : A Landscape Critic in the Gilded Age /

Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer (1851-1934) was one of the premier figures in landscape writing and design at the turn of the twentieth century, a moment when the amateur pursuit of gardening and the increasingly professionalized landscape design field were beginning to diverge. This biography revea...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Major, Judith K.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2013
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Introduction : Portraits of a lady
  • The education of Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer
  • A career begins
  • A new field of study : landscape gardening
  • Historical sketches on the art of gardening
  • Traces in garden and forest
  • A turning point : 1893
  • While garden and forest lived
  • Changes
  • The aesthetics of life
  • Appendix A : Garden and forest editorials and unsigned articles written by M. G. Van Rensselaer
  • Appendix B : Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer chronology.