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Winner of the 2012 J.B. Jackson Prize, as given by the Foundation for landscape Studies.--Foundation for Landscape Studies"J.B. Jackson Prize" (02/23/2012)
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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. A social magnet for Londoners and tourists, they also became a dynamic centre for the arts in Britain. By the eighteenth century, when the Gardens were owned and managed by Jonathan Tyers - friend of Handel, Hogarth and Fielding - they were 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. In the nineteenth century the Gardens remained a popular attraction, but faced increasing competition from new forms of entertainment such as the circus and the music hall and, with the arrival of the railway, the seaside. Nevertheless, they remained a prominent feature of London life right up to their closure in 1859. Borg and Coke's historical exposition of the entire history of the foremost pleasure garden of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century London makes a major contribution to the study of London entertainments, art, music, sculpture, class and ideology, and puts into a very particular context an unusual combination of subjects. 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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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
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Easy to read and choc a bloc with information on the pleasure gardens and London, this book is a treasure. The authors have gathered information and illustrations and presented them in a highly digestible fashion.
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The authors are to be congratulated on a labour of love. They have given us what must be the definitive book on Vauxhall Gardens, and seem to have hunted up every scrap of information. The book that has been produced is certainly weighty, but that is partly due to the high grade paper used in the printing, which results in excellent quality for the many fascinating illustrations. The study of the Gardens is divided into topics, making for easier reading than a straight historical account. The book is written in an easily readable style, which is not always achieved by scholars who are great experts in their field. The subjects present a microcosm of London's history: transport and access to the Gardens; admission prices and the cost of living; changing tastes in popular entertainment; mass catering; music; prostitution; firework displays; drunkenness; etc etc. It is not a cheap book, but represents good value for money. It is beautifully printed and will give many hours of pleasure.
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