Plant : exploring the botanical world
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This fresh and visually stunning survey celebrates the extraordinary beauty and diversity of plants. It combines photographs and cutting-edge micrograph scans with watercolours, drawings, and prints to bring this universally popular and captivating subject vividly to life. Carefully selected by an international panel of experts and arranged in a uniquely structured sequence to highlight thought-provoking contrasts and similarities, this compilation of botanically themed images includes iconic work by celebrated artists, photographers, scientists, and botanical illustrators, as well as rare and previously unpublished images.
It celebrates the beauty and diversity of plants from around the world across all media - from murals in ancient Greece to a Napoleonic-era rose print and cutting-edge scans.
TitlePlant : exploring the botanical world
Author
Place of publicationLondon
PublisherPhaidon
Year of publication2017
Pagination352 p.
Illustrationsill.
Dimensions30 cm
Materialboek
ISBN978-0-7148-7148-6
Subjectplants in art, flowers in art
Persons keyword Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Sydney Parkinson, Margaret Mee, Nobuyoshi Araki, Thomas Ruff, Karl Blossfeldt
Copy number | Shelfmark | Loan status | |
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B-2018/324 | ,7.043,PL:A"2017 | Available |
Copy number | B-2018/324 |
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Loan status | Available |