Art Photography Book, "Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom" Phaidon Editors, With an Introduction by Anna Pavord

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Offered is one of the most beautiful books we have ever encountered, "Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom", a feast … Read more Offered is one of the most beautiful books we have ever encountered, "Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom", a feast for the eyes featuring paintings, prints, ceramics, textiles, photography and more centered around flowers. We've sampled many of the goodies in our images above, but there are many, many, MANY more. Even the dust jacket is a washing work of art, it's very rigid, almost like a thin cardboard. Picasso, Marimekko, Tim Walker, Yayoi Kusama, and 100s more exquisitely selected by the editors at Phaidon. This book would make an amazing gift for someone in your life who loves flowers or art photography

Format: Hardback and dust jacket
Size: 290 × 250 mm (11.375" × 9.875" x 1.75" in)
Pages: 352 pp
Illustrations: 316 illustrations
ISBN: 9781838660857

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Winner of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries 2025 Award of Excellence in Series

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. See less