Botanical arts Books
Transcript Verlag The Cultures of Entanglement: On Nonhuman Life
Book SynopsisThe symbolic meaning of plants, their relevance for religion and the metaphorical provocations in the order of knowledge, culture and political power underline the role of plants as something more than passive objects. Current theoretical and artistic discourses have been seeking access to the world independently of man by focusing on the nonhuman other. The contributors to this volume examine the historical, philosophical and scientific findings that generate this idea. In what way are such perspectives manifest in contemporary art? Do artists develop a particular approach that enables nonhuman life forms like plants, insects or animals to have an impact?
£41.24
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Victorian Fern Craze Shire Library 571
Book SynopsisFern Fever was popular in Britain between 1837 and 1914. This book looks at the how the craze developed, the ways in which ferns were incorporated into garden and home, and the spread of the fern through Victorian material and visual culture.
£8.99
The Crowood Press Ltd The Botanical Illustrator's Handbook
Book SynopsisThe Botanical Illustrator's Handbook takes a closer look at how to accurately portray the riches of the botanical world. It tackles and explains many of the difficulties that artists encounter so they can extend and expand their choice of subject matter. Written by a respected artist and drawing on her wealth of experience, it offers new insights and a fresh approach to the wonders of botanical illustration. Topics covered include: advice on the labelling and quality of paper, and choice of pencils, paints and brushes; techniques for the mixing and handling of greens; chapters on magnification, managing detail and using scale bars; and finally, instructions for using perspective techniques, and painting complex structures such as pine cones and umbellifers, and tricky details such as hairs.
£16.14
teNeues Publishing UK Ltd Peonies
Book SynopsisLush, full, and incredibly beautiful, the peony is one of the most magnificent flowers adorning our gardens. It saddens enthusiasts of this beauty that it is quite rare. Depending on the variety, its blooming period is limited to a few weeks between May and June. However, when the peony finally decides to unfurl its bud, it practically explodes, presenting a bombastic display of fully filled blossoms that delights peony lovers in ecstatic admiration.Now, all friends of this lavish ornamental plant can rejoice, because for the long wait between blooms, the photo book Floramour: Peonies offers a replacement that is unparalleled. The concept of this extraordinary book series envisions a new and comprehensive approach to this aesthetically pleasing plant.In addition to photographs in intoxicating colours and delicate details, author Anja Klaffenbach imparts fascinating botanical knowledge and a skilful overview of the cultural history of this magn
£23.96
Headline Publishing Group Paperscapes The Flower Garden the book that
Book SynopsisBotanical illustrations accompany text by nature writer and botanist Michael Scott. Press-out sections enable you to reveal the outlines of the flowers and transform your book into a work of art. Table of ContentsPress-out illustrations of over 50 species of flower from across the globe, each accompanied by approx. 250 to 300 words of descriptive text.
£18.00
Quarto Publishing PLC Urban Botanics
Book SynopsisA stunning, lifestyle guide to indoor plants, including: flowering, cacti, succulents and foliage. With illustrations by Maaike Koster and authoritative text by Emma Sibley.Table of ContentsIntroduction Succulents Cacti Flowering Plants Foliage Plants
£12.34
Rocky Mountain Books,Canada A Delicate Art: Artists, Wildflowers and Native
Book SynopsisA Delicate Art highlights the paintings and photography of six artists in Alberta who with passion and long moments of observation have made an inspired contribution to wildflower art. Covering a period of one hundred years to the present, the story behind these creators Mary Schäffer Warren, Mary Vaux Walcott, William Copeland McCalla, Annora Brown, Robert Sinclair and Carole Harmon is also told. A blend of biography, botanical and regional art history and commentary by the artists themselves about their treasured subject, A Delicate Art is intended for the lay reader and is accompanied by sumptuous reproductions of the artwork and an alluring overall design that will appeal to anyone interested in art, mountain-life and gardening.
£22.09
Roli Books Indian Botanical Art: An Illustrated History
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£33.20
Green Writers Press A Year In Nature: A Memoir of Solace
Book SynopsisAfter writing twelve books over a period of forty years, I said I was finished. However, my life and the life around me has changed and I felt it time to offer to people pages from my own personal nature journals which have been my guides and deep sources for both learning and solace since I began writing books, back in l978. I decided to publish a book that is not instructive or text heavy. Beginning with the Winter Solstice and going through the twelve months of the year, I have chosen one hundred twenty -two pages from my own illustrated/hand written journals of the last three years revealing my reflections, doubts, joys, responses to both family, political, environmental worries and the deep solace I continually find going out into my local nature. As both urban and rural naturalist, educator, wife, mother, grandmother I open my journal pages as they are personal yet universal to all of us as we question our own lives in balance with the ongoing and continual cycles of nature's seasons.
£19.76
Tuttle Publishing Origami Paper 100 sheets Japanese Flowers 6 15 cm
Book SynopsisThis origami paper pack contains 100 high-quality origami sheets printed with 12 different natural-looking and attractive Japanese flower patterns and prints. The handmade look of this paper was selected to enhance the creative work of modular origami artists and paper crafters. The pack contains prints unique to this package, and each sheet has a solid coordinating color on the back side. This origami paper pack includes: 100 sheets of high-quality origami paper 12 colorful Japanese-style designs and patternsDouble-sided color 6 x 6 inch (15 cm) squaresInstructions for 5 easy origami projectsThere's enough paper here to create beautiful folded models, distribute to students for a class project, or put to a multitude of other creative uses from scrapbooking to bullet journaling!
£8.64
Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh: Director's Choice
Book SynopsisThe Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh is one of Scotland's most visited tourist attractions and has been cultivating and studying plants for over three centuries. Across its four garden sites, the Royal Botanic Garden's living plant collection contains over 13,500 species from 156 countries, including some that are extinct in the wild and others new to science. The ever-growing Herbarium currently contains over three million dried specimens and the Library houses Scotland's national collection of botanical and horticultural literature, including manuscripts dating back to the fifteenth century. The highlights illustrated in this book provide a personal insight into one of the world's greatest botanic gardens and reveals the invaluable contribution that it makes to the ongoing documentation and conservation of the world's diverse plant life.
£9.45
Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Pocketbooks: Wildflowers
Book SynopsisThis stunning series of pocketbooks from Kew offers a snapshot into the diverse and beautiful world of plants. Kew Pocketbooks: Wildflowers lavishly showcases a meadow’s worth of familiar plants in 40 botanical paintings. Kew Pocketbooks: Wildflowers is a celebration of the natural bounty around us, offering a meadow’s worth of familiar plants including foxgloves, poppies, dandelion, ivy, daisy, bluebells and orchids, and many more. 40 delightful botanical paintings from the Kew archives depict these classic plants.
£13.00
Yale University Press Flora Illustrata
Book SynopsisAn exquisitely illustrated volume in celebration of the world's foremost library of botanical worksTrade Review"Flora Illustrata is a treat for the eyes."—Julie Lasky, New York Times"Both handsome and informative. . . . I only wish the book were even longer."—Dominique Browning, New York Times Book Review"Bound to delight your favorite gardener."—Vogue"Richly informative, visually stunning. . . . This enchanting collection is a comprehensive resource on the history, science, and art of botany, and an object of beauty in itself."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review"The style is accessible, convincing and even humorous. . . . This desirable book conveys the message that a botanic garden is a place both for research and horticultural activity, and demonstrates the age-old intertwining of books and botanic gardens."—Liz Taylor, the Garden“A sumptuously illustrated compendium in which international experts introduce us to some of the most fascinating works held by the renowned LuEsther T. Mertz Library of The New York Botanical Garden”—Sandy Simpson, The Falkirk HeraldWinner of the 2015 American Horticultural Society's Book AwardWinner of the Council on Botanical and Horticultural Libraries Annual Literature Award for 2015"Equally a feast for the mind and the eyes."—Oliver Sacks"The LuEsther T. Mertz Library is unquestionably one of the great treasures of the world. Flora Illustrata reveals with stunning scholarship the deeply intertwined history of plants, science, and humanity. Rich and fascinating beyond imagination and now accessible to anyone. A triumph of a book."—Thomas E. Lovejoy, George Mason University"As a synthetic grouping, Flora Illustrata is an important and useful contribution. The essays are rich, and are accompanied by some wonderful illustrations. This is a lavish book, successful in its objectives, and useful to a wide audience."—Daniel Lewis, Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens"An erudite and sumptuous exploration of the timeless fascination of people with plants, which along the way reveals the origins of one of the world's great botanical gardens."—Peter Crane, author of Ginkgo: The Tree That Time Forgot"The LuEsther T. Mertz Library at the New York Botanical Garden is surely the greatest research botanical library in the world, a precious repository of knowledge from cultures all over the world and spanning from the 12th century to the 21st. Plants—from which we ultimately derive all of our food, building materials, and medicines—are also a source of great beauty and wonder. Flora Illustrata celebrates all this, and speaks of an intimate relationship between art and science. It is equally a feast for the mind and the eyes."—Oliver Sacks
£40.38
University of Nebraska Press The Forgotten Botanist
Book SynopsisThe Forgotten Botanist tells the story of Sara Plummer Lemmon, a little-known and underappreciated woman of both science and art who did much of the botanical work attributed to her husband, John Gill Lemmon. Trade Review"In this attentive and richly researched portrait, writer Wynne Brown honors not just Plummer Lemmon's many accomplishments but her verve and courage."—Tess Joosse, Scientific American"Brown weaves together research in newspaper accounts, personal letters, field notes, photographs, and other personal papers to create a remarkable, intimate biography of a fascinating woman."—R. C. Hedreen, Choice"[The Forgotten Botanist] is a memorable account of an accomplished life."—Publishers Weekly“Richly details Plummer Lemmon’s life of pluck and inquisitiveness that led to grand, sometimes harrowing, adventures and discoveries.”—Beth Surdut, Desert Leaf "I highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to understand the contribution of women to the field of botany, but also to anyone who wants to read a fascinating and memorable tale of life as a botanist in the 19th century. Sara will come alive for you on these pages. Hopefully, her days of being a forgotten botanist may finally be in the past."—Amy Boyd, Plant Science Bulletin"The Forgotten Botanist is a timeless tale about a woman who discovered who she was by leaving everything behind. Her inspiring story is one of resilience, determination, and courage—and is as relevant to our nation today as it was in her own time."—Mary Sauers, NCompass blog“The history of botany is filled with intrepid, brilliant women, but few have gotten their due. Wynne Brown has written a lively life of Sara Plummer Lemmon, a brave nineteenth-century botanist who explored the West. She earned the admiration of the great botanists of her day, and she deserves ours as well.”—Victoria Johnson, author of American Eden“In this long overdue biography of Sara Lemmon, Wynne Brown restores an overlooked luminary of the Southwest to her proper place in history. Brimming with narrative verve and a naturalist’s eye for detail, The Forgotten Botanist is a vivid account of how one woman overcame great odds to help shape western botany.”—Francisco Cantú, author of The Line Becomes the River“A stirring and intimate portrait of an unconventional, resourceful, and adventurous transplant to the American West.”—Susan Cummins Miller, editor of A Sweet, Separate Intimacy“Using botanist Sara Plummer Lemmon’s copious letters to family and friends, author Wynne Brown delves into Lemmon’s hopes and successes as well as her challenges and disappointments as she and her botanist husband pursued undescribed plants throughout the West.”—Carolyn Niethammer, author of A Desert FeastTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Prologue: New York Harbor, December 1869 1. “Now I Am at the Jumping Off Place”: San Francisco, 1870 2. “Perhaps You’ve Heard Our Sadie Was Killed”: Santa Barbara, 1870 3. “It Is Like Death to Me to Be Idle”: Santa Barbara, 1871–76 4. “A Great Botanist from the Sierras”: Michigan, the Civil War, and Northern California, 1832–76 5. “My Dear, Soul-Knit Brother”: Santa Barbara and Sierra Valley, 1876–77 6. “Into the Matrimonial Vortex!”: Santa Barbara and Oakland, 1877–80 7. “Try to Touch the Heart of Santa Catalina”: Southern Arizona, Spring 1881 8. “An Extreme Outpost of Civilized Life”: Southern Arizona, Fall 1881 9. “Eleven Days of Dungeon Life”: Southern Arizona, Fall 1881 10. “Happy in Our Work & in Each Other”: Oakland, 1881–82 11. “Rushing, Reckless Life of a True Mining Town”: Southern Arizona, Summer 1882 12. “A Botanical Paradise”: Southern Arizona, Summer–Fall 1882 13. “Considered by Less Ambitious a Fine Season’s Work”: Oakland and Southern Arizona, 1882–83 14. “Lives Cast in Pleasant Places”: Northern Arizona and New Mexico, 1884 15. “Grandest Display the World Has Ever Known”: New Orleans and New England, 1884–85 16. “Our Hillock in Cholame”: Near San Luis Obispo, California, 1885–87 17. “Life, to Me, Seems Sweeter Each Year”: Oakland and Mexico, 1887–88 18. “The Narrowest Escape from Instant Death”: Oakland, 1888–91 19. “Sell Everything and Move to California!”: Oakland and Chicago, 1891–93 20. “A Sweet, Sacred Togetherness”: Oakland and Mexico, 1894–98 21. “Wish We Were Out in the Wild Woods”: Oakland and Arizona, 1899–1903 22. “Safe—Tho’ Tremendously Shaken”: Arizona and Oakland, 1903–6 23. “I Feel So Helpless and Alone”: Oakland, 1906–12 24. “Partners in Botany”: Oakland, 1908–23 Epilogue Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography
£19.79
The Chinese University Press Botanical Illustrated Guide to Hong Kong Native
Book SynopsisThis beautifully illustrated guide presents a carefully curated collection of 20 plant species native to Hong Kong, with scientific, detailed pen and ink illustrations and morphological descriptions, providing important reference materials for species authentication. Of the 20 species selected, 15 are rare and endangered species, making this guide of special importance for plant preservation in Hong Kong, as well as for botanists, plant lovers, and illustrators. This is the first volume of Shiu?Ying Hu Herbarium Scientific Illustration Series.Trade ReviewWith its numerous beautiful botanical illustrations and informative details of plant morphological features, this book is a remarkable addition to Hong Kong's botanical science collection and flora conservation work. Through this novel approach in integrating botanical knowledge in STEAM education, this book will open the eyes of our citizens, especially the younger generation, and raise their interest and awareness in plants, and contribute to promoting biodiversity conservation in Hong Kong.""-Jenny Y. Y. LAU, Curator of Hong Kong Herbarium, Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department""To see these beautiful illustrations, the photos and the commentary about the plants that accompany them makes us wish that all of the rich and diverse flora of Hong Kong could be treated similarly.""-David E. Boufford, Senior Research Scientist, Harvard University Herbaria & Editorial Committee Member of Flora of ChinaTable of Contents Alsophila spinulosa (Wall. ex Hook.) R. M. Tryon Illicium dunnianum Tutcher Michelia chapensis Dandy Artabotrys hongkongensis Hance Paris polyphylla var. chinensis (Franch.) H. Hara Iris speculatrix Hance Rhodoleia championii Hook. Dalbergia assamica Benth. Dalbergia candenatensis (Dennst.) Prain Polygala hongkongensis Hemsl. Artocarpus hypargyreus Hance ex Benth. Sapindus saponaria L. Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Spreng. Lysimachia alpestris Champ. ex Benth. Camellia oleifera C. Abel Rhododendron simsii Planch. Pavetta hongkongensis Bremek. Oroxylum indicum (L.) Benth. ex Kurz Ilex rotunda var. microcarpa (Lindl. ex Paxton) S. Y. Hu Eleutherococcus trifoliatus (L.) S. Y. Hu
£35.96
Editorial Gg Árboles En El Arte
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£17.95
Taylor & Francis Empire Gender and Biogeography
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£128.25
Page Street Publishing Co. Paint-by-Number Botanicals: The Easy, Relaxing
Book SynopsisExperience the joy of painting with this innovative workbook where contemporary design meets the paint-by-number method you know and love from your childhood. All 30 numbered outlines are printed on high-quality, smooth, thick, single-sided art paper that’s ideal for acrylic paint. Ranging from lovely garden flowers such as peonies, dahlias, sunflowers, and roses to lush orange blossom branches and monstera leaves, each botanical painting features soft color palettes to soothe your mind with the beauty of nature. The method is simple: Just tear out the numbered design along the perforated edging, follow the colour map included, and feel your stress melt away as a masterpiece blooms effortlessly beneath your brush.
£17.09
Reaktion Books The Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of
Book SynopsisIn a world flooded with images designed to create memories, validate perceptions and influence others, botanical illustration is about creating technically accurate depictions of plants. Reproductions of centuries-old botanical illustrations frequently adorn greetings cards, pottery and advertising, to promote heritage or generate income, yet their art is scientific: its purpose is to record, display and transmit scientific data. The Beauty of the Flower shows us how scientific botanical illustrations are collaborations among artists, scientists and publishers. It explores the evolution and interchanges of these illustrations since the mid-fifteenth century, the ways in which they have been used to communicate scientific ideas about plants and how views of botanical imagery change. Featuring unique images rarely seen outside of specialist literature this book reveals the fascinating stories behind these remarkable illustrations.Table of ContentsPreface Chapter 1: Plant and Page Chapter 2: Themes and Trends Chapter 3: Science and Illustration Chapter 4: Blood and Treasure Chapter 5: Garden and Grove Chapter 6: Inside and Out Chapter 7: Habit and Habitat Chapter 8: Observe and Test Chapter 9: Sweat and Tears Appendix: Plant Names References Further Reading Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index
£37.21
Schwabe Verlagsgruppe Inszenierung Des Heimischen: Reformarchitektur
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£166.25
Darwin Y La Botanica
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£63.30
