# Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom - Hardcover

by **Phaidon Press** (Author), **Anna Pavord** (Introduction by), **Shane Connolly** (Contribution by)

**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.

**Advisory panel**: Lugene B. Bruno, Dr James Compton, Shane Connolly, Anne-Pierre d'Albis-Ganem, Celia Fisher, Susan M. Fraser, Victoria Gaiger, Elizabeth Hammer, Daisy Helman, Catherine Hess, Pascale Heurtel, Dr Lisa Hostetler, Lyndsey Ingram, Professor Dr Hans Walter Lack, Dr Fred G. Meijer, Colleen Morris, Polly Nicholson, Lynn Parker, Anna Pavord, Gill Saunders, Lindsey Taylor, Anatole Tchikine and Betsy Wieseman

**Additional texts**: Giovanni Aloi, Louise Bell, Lugene Bruno, Shane Connolly, Clare Coulson, Louisa Elderton, Celia Fisher, Diane Fortenberry, Victoria Gaiger, Daisy Helman, Pascale Heurtel, Lyndsey Ingram, Hans Walter Lack, Fred G. Meijer, Alison Morris, Colleen Morris, Polly Nicholson, Michele Robecchi, Rebecca Roke, Gill Saunders, James Smith, Lindsey Taylor, David Trigg and Martin Walters

### Author Biography

**Phaidon Editors**

**Anna Pavord's** books include her globally bestselling _The Tulip_ and _The Naming of Names_, and more recently _The Seasonal Gardener_, published by Phaidon. Her gardening column in the _Independent_ newspaper in the UK ran for thirty years from the paper's launch in 1986 until the last print edition. Today she writes for the _Sunday Times_ and is an Associate Editor of _Gardens Illustrated_ magazine. Pavord lives in West Dorset and was awarded the Gold Veitch medal from the Royal Horticultural Society in 2001.

**Shane Connolly** is the founder of Shane Connolly & Company Flowers, London and Royal Warrant holder to HM The Queen and HRH the Prince of Wales.

**Number of Pages:** 352

**Dimensions:** 1.5 x 11.7 x 10.2 IN

**Illustrated:** Yes

**Publication Date:** September 30, 2020

## Details

- **Price:** 64.95 USD
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- **Type:** Books
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