Across cultures and centuries, flowers have been offerings, symbols, and obsessions. This book gathers them their stories, their images, their contradictions into one place. 320 pages. Thousands of years of meaning.
Across cultures and centuries, flowers have been offerings, symbols, and obsessions. This book gathers them their stories, their images, their contradictions into one place. 320 pages. Thousands of years of meaning.
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Winner of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries
With 316 color illustrations spanning drawing, painting, photography, and mixed media, Flower moves through centuries of human fascination — from Flemish still lifes to Kusama’s infinity nets, from botanical illustration to street photography.
Each chapter unfolds as both archive and argument: that the flower is not decoration, but a persistent site of meaning, desire, mourning, and wonder. This is its most complete record.
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Nobuyoshi Araki