Synopses & Reviews
This lavishly illustrated book demonstrates the power of cut flowers to move the onlooker, a power crucial to the adoption of flowers in every culture to symbolize life, beauty, and death. All religions have flowers at the heart of their faith. Art has proved an enduring companion in the representation of the power of flowers to move.
Flower Power brings together a wide variety of ravishing renderings and photographs of the cut flower in the history of fine and decorative art since 1500. It explains their symbolic meanings and demonstrates the response that flowers evoke in people everywhere. The illustrations of flowers in many different cultures around the world highlight the differences between faiths and traditions.
Synopsis
This photographic odyssey brings together a wide variety of ravishing illustrations of the cut flower in the history of fine and decorative art since 1500. It will explain their symbolic meanings and demonstrate the response that flowers evoke in us all.
Synopsis
This book is about the power of cut flowers to move the onlooker. The book brings together a wide variety of ravishing illustrations of the cut flower in the history of fine and decorative art since 1500. It explains their symbolic meanings and demonstrates the response that flowers evoke in us all. The representation of flowers in many different cultures around the world enriches the visual material and illustrates the differences between faiths and traditions.
About the Author
Anna Pavord is the author of the best-selling title The Tulip. Andrew Moore is Keeper of Art, and Christopher Garibaldi is Assistant Keeper of Art, both at Norwich Castle Museum, Norfolk, England.