Plant : exploring the botanical world
2016
Book
The ultimate gift for gardeners and art-lovers, featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever. Following in the footsteps of the international bestseller Map: Exploring the World, 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 stunning compilation of botanically themed images includes iconic work by celebrated artists, photographers, scientists, and botanical illustrators, as well as rare and previously unpublished images.
Main title:
Author:
Clarke, Victoria, editorPickles, Rosie, editor
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
London : Phaidon Press Limited, 2016.New York, NY Phaidon, 2016.
Collation:
351 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm.
Notes:
"The artworks in this book have been arranged in pairs to highlight interesting comparisons and contrasts based loosely on their subject, age, purpose, origin or appearance. This organizational system is not definitive and many other arrangements would have been possible. A chronological survey of botanical art can be found in the timeline at the back."--title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (page 343) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Works of art -- Timeline -- Plant taxonomy & glossary -- Selected biographies -- Further reading -- Index.
ISBN:
07148714869780714871486
Dewey class:
580
LC class:
N7680
Language:
English
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Subject:
BRN:
436467
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Melbourne Library | -Science and Nature | SCIENCE 580 PLAN | Available |
| North Melbourne Library | -Science and Nature | SCIENCE 580 PLAN | Available |