Vauxhall Gardens : a history
From their early beginnings in the Restoration until the final closure in Queen Victoria's reign, Vauxhall Gardens developed from a rural tavern and place of assignation into a dream-world filled with visual arts and music, and finally into a commercial site of mass entertainment. By the 18th c...
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| Document Type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New Haven, Conn. ; London
: Yale University Press
, 2011
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| Online Access: | Inhaltsverzeichnis Inhaltsverzeichnis Rezension Rezension |
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Pleasure gardens Rezensiert in: [Rezension von: David E. Coke / Alan Borg, Vauxhall Gardens] |
| Author Notes: | David Coke & Alan Borg |
| Summary: | From their early beginnings in the Restoration until the final closure in Queen Victoria's reign, Vauxhall Gardens developed from a rural tavern and place of assignation into a dream-world filled with visual arts and music, and finally into a commercial site of mass entertainment. By the 18th century, Vauxhall was crucial to the cultural and fashionable life of the country, patronized by all levels of society, from royal dukes to penurious servants. In the first book on the subject for over fifty years, Alan Borg and David E. Coke reveal the teeming life, the spectacular art and the ever-present music of Vauxhall in fascinating detail. Borg and Coke's historical exposition of the entire history of the gardens makes a major contribution to the study of London entertainments, art, music, sculpture, class and ideology. It reveals how Vauxhall linked high and popular culture in ways that look forward to the manner in which both art and entertainment have evolved in modern times. |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke |
| Physical Description: | XII, 473 Seiten Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele, Karten |
| ISBN: | 9780300173826 0300173822 |
