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Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom
Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom
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A beautiful and comprehensive survey of flowers across art, history, and culture, with 316 color illustrations and works by a diverse range of artists and image-makers.
Format: Hardback
Length: 352 pages
Publication date: 10 September 2020
Publisher: Phaidon Press Ltd
Flower is a captivating and lavish exploration that delves into the captivating beauty and allure of flowers across art, history, and culture. This comprehensive masterpiece showcases a vast array of floral motifs, spanning a diverse range of styles and media, from exquisite art pieces to botanical illustrations, sculptures, floral arrangements, film stills, and textiles. The book follows a visually stunning sequence, carefully pairing works from different periods to create intriguing and revealing juxtapositions.
Flower, like its predecessor, Plant, Exploring the Botanical World, has been praised as breathtaking by Martha Stewart Living. With its large-scale images and accessible texts, Flower provides a comprehensive introduction to the world of flowers, featuring both well-known masterpieces and unexpected discoveries for experts alike.
Selected by an international panel of art historians, museum curators, botanists, florists, horticulturalists, and other experts, the book showcases a diverse range of both lesser-known and iconic artists and image-makers. Some of the notable artists featured in Flower include Nobuyoshi Araki, Cecil Beaton, Georg Ehret, David Hockney, Horst P. Horst, Nick Knight, Yayoi Kusama, Leonardo da Vinci, Robert Mapplethorpe, Henri Matisse, Claude Monet, Cedric Morris, William Morris, Georgia O'Keeffe, Irving Penn, David Hockney, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Rachel Ruysch, Constance Spry, and Flora Starkey.
In addition to the stunning visual content, Flower also includes an advisory panel of esteemed individuals who have contributed their expertise to the book. The panel includes Lugene B. Bruno, Dr. James Compton, Shane Connolly, Anne-Pierre d Albis-Ganem, Celia Fisher, Susan M. Fraser, Victoria Gaiger, Elizabeth Hammer, Daisy Helman, Catherine Hess, Pascale Heurtel, Dr. Lisa Hostetler, Lyndsey Ingr, and others.
Flower is a testament to the enduring fascination with flowers and their profound impact on art, history, and culture. Whether you are an art enthusiast, a botanical lover, or simply someone who appreciates the beauty of nature, this book is a must-have for anyone seeking to explore the captivating world of flowers in all their splendor.
Weight: 2492g
Dimension: 259 x 300 x 40 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781838660857
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