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At court, flowers coloured, scented, adorned, sustained, nourished, and enthralled. These interdisciplinary essays engage with flowers as real, artificial, and represented objects across the Tudor and Stuart courts in gardens, literature, painting, interior furnishing, garments, and as jewels, medicine, and food. Situating this burgeoning floral culture within a European floral revolution of science, natural history, global trade, and colonial expansion, they reveal the court's distinctive floral identity and history. If the rose operated as a particularly English lingua franca of royal power across two dynasties, this volume sheds light on an array of wild and garden flowers to offer an immersive picture of how the Tudor and Stuart courts lived and functioned, styled and displayed themselves through flowers. It contributes to a revival of interest in the early modern green world and provides a focused view of a court and court culture that used and revelled in blooms.

This hardcover book with internal wire-o binding is 6.5in x 8in, a perfect size for readers to keep handy in the studio, and reference often. The stylish design of this book, along with the interior photographs, illustrations and diagrams, make the learning process simple and fun for beginning painters and provides useful tips for more advanced artists.This book is divided into three sections. In the first section, you will find practical advice on choosing the necessary tools and equiopment as well as hints on mixing colors-one of the trickier skills to master until you have learned some of the basic properties of color. Next, the techniques used in watercolor painting are explained in detail, from the most basic like laying washes and reserving highlights to some of the more unusual and exciting methods like wax-resist or spattering paint. Tutorials and more than 100 step-by-step sequences demonstrate how to paint a wide range of subjects, including landscapes, buildings, people and still life. Over 180,000 copies sold worldwide.

Capture stunning macro floral images with this gorgeous guide by acclaimed photographer Harold Davis. You'll learn about different types of flowers, macro equipment basics, and the intricacies of shooting different floral varieties in the field and in the studio. Harold also shows you techniques in the Photoshop darkroom that can be applied to flower photography to help you get the most out of your images. Beautiful and authoritative, this guide to photographing flowers is a must-read for every photographer interested in flower photography. Photographing Flowers will also win a place in the hearts of those who simply love striking floral imagery. 

Celebrating the life and work of botanist Kate Furbish, Rowman and Littlefield is pleased to partner with the Bowdoin College Library to publish the first ever catalog of Furbish's artwork. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, in a field dominated by her male counterparts, Kate Furbish made a name for herself traveling the length and breadth of Maine, collecting, classifying, and illustrating the native flora of the state. She discovered two previously unknown plants, which were named for her, and devoted sixty years of her life to this endeavor, producing over 1,000 illustrations, most of which are now housed at the Bowdoin College Library. Plants and Flowers of Maine: Kate Furbish's Watercolors presents nearly 1,300 of Furbish's color paintings, all printed full size. This large format, two-volume set is a treat for the eyes and an almanac of the rich variety of plant life to be found in Maine. It is also a testament to Kate Furbish's lifelong passion to record all of Maine's plants and flowers in meticulous watercolor paintings. Plants and Flowers of Maine: Kate Furbish's Watercolors comes in three formats: This set is available as an eBook edition from rowman.com or your preferred eBook vendor. Use ISBN 9781442253766 when ordering. A collectible limited deluxe edition of 75 numbered copies signed by Richard H. F. Lindemann is presented with forest green cloth and hand bound leather spine for $750.00. Use ISBN 9781442253735 when ordering. Terms are non-returnable. A shrink-wrapped edition is also available for $350.00. Use ISBN 9781442253759 when ordering. Terms are non-returnable.

Why Look at Plants? proposes a thought-provoking look into the emerging cultural politics of plant-presence in contemporary art through the original contributions of artists, scholars, and curators who have creatively engaged with the ultimate otherness of plants in their work.

This article will explore the artwork of Bracha Avigad (1919-2016), an Israeli woman artist, in the context of her personal history intertwined with the history of Zionism and of Israel. Her artistic projects, dating from the 1940s through the 1980s, reflect significant elements of Zionist ideology and a feminist attitude embodied in both the content and the style of her works as well as in some of her career decisions. This is the first study to discuss and analyzing Avigad's art work comprehensively. Significant ideological motifs in her work include the Holocaust and the vision of Israel, the Hebrew Bible as a cultural heritage, the land of Israel as a physical and spiritual entity, and the idea of sharing the land with the Palestinian Arabs. Her corpus of was divided into three main projects: The scroll of Esther, wildflower drawings, and biblical landscapes. Each project will be presented and examined chronologically, using a method based on iconography and iconology. From her first project to her last, Avigad's ideas, perceptions and consciousness were expressed in a unique artistic voice.

Learn how to analyze the structure of flowers and break them down into simple shapes; create delightful compositions; mix beautiful flower colors, from delicate pastels to rich and vibrant hues. Over 60,000 copies sold worldwide.

Few weeds have been more successful throughout history than the poppy. Hated by farmers for its stubbornness, the poppy has been a favorite of artists and poets, due to its distinct and brilliant color, and it has functioned symbolically as everything from a war memorial to an emblem of the exotic cultures of the East. In this book, Andrew Lack explores all the aspects of one of our most familiar flowers, combining biology, history, and culture to paint a bright portrait of this fascinating plant. Lack looks deep into the past of the poppy's ancient history-before it seemed to inhabit only ditches and cornfields-and examines the biology that gives it its unique coloring. He analyzes the poppy's many members of this beautiful family, including the opium poppy, which is the source of one of the world's oldest-and most ravaging-narcotics. He describes how the poppy came to be associated with war and remembrance, and he looks at how they have been used to commemorate everything from weddings to funerals. Beautifully illustrated, the book will appeal to gardeners or anyone fascinated by the way plants have so powerfully figured in human culture and traditions.

Realised immediately after the first Paris lockdown of March 2020, Angelica Mesiti's video installation Over the Air and Underground - which assembles flowers in various stages of decomposition in a dark fluorescent circle - resonates with both our fears and recent delights manifested by the pandemic. The associations that the piece evokes are multiple, and it is precisely this navigation that intrigues me: it allows us to evaluate what is happening to us, the bonds that form despite (and perhaps thanks to) the virus, the weaknesses that are also strengths. In the videos, the luminous filaments and ultraviolet rays that cover the flowers embody these links to be rebuilt, and their brilliant intensity eloquently tells of the importance - and, indeed, the urgency - of such a project.