A comprehensive and sumptuous survey that celebrates the beauty and
appeal of flowers throughout art, history, and culture
Take a journey across continents and cultures to discover the endless
ways artists and image-makers have employed floral motifs throughout
history. With 316 color illustrations showcasing the diversity of blooms
from all over the world, Flower spans a wide range of styles and
media - from art, botanical illustrations, and sculptures to floral
arrangements, film stills, and textiles - and follows a visually
stunning sequence with works, regardless of period, thoughtfully paired
to allow interesting and revealing juxtapositions between them. Flower
follows in the footsteps of Plant, Exploring the Botanical World,
which Martha Stewart Living described as "breathtaking."
Featuring large-scale images and accessible texts Flower offers a
comprehensive introduction to the subject and includes both much-loved
works together with examples that may prove more surprising discoveries,
even for specialists. Selected by an international panel of art
historians, museum curators, botanists, florists, horticulturalists, and
more, works by a diverse range of both lesser-known and iconic artists
and image-makers are featured, including: 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.
Advisory panel: 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 Ingram, Professor Dr Hans Walter Lack, Dr
Fred G. Meijer, Colleen Morris, Polly Nicholson, Lynn Parker, Anna
Pavord, Gill Saunders, Lindsey Taylor, Anatole Tchikine and Betsy
Wieseman
Additional texts: Giovanni Aloi, Louise Bell, Lugene Bruno, Shane
Connolly, Clare Coulson, Louisa Elderton, Celia Fisher, Diane
Fortenberry, Victoria Gaiger, Daisy Helman, Pascale Heurtel, Lyndsey
Ingram, Hans Walter Lack, Fred G. Meijer, Alison Morris, Colleen Morris,
Polly Nicholson, Michele Robecchi, Rebecca Roke, Gill Saunders, James
Smith, Lindsey Taylor, David Trigg and Martin Walters
