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Vruchten : verrukkelijk, verraderlijk en verwonderlijk
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ISBN: 9789085715818 Year: 2016 Publisher: Amsterdam Veen Media

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Vruchten kunnen lekker zijn of giftig, maar zijn vooral het vervoermiddel voor genen van planten. Dit boek brengt de onvoorstelbare diversiteit van vruchten met prachtige detailfoto's in beeld. Ook komen de vindingrijke strategieën aan bod die ze gebruiken om hun genen te laten overleven.


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Plant : exploring the botanical world
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ISBN: 9780714871486 0714871486 Year: 2016 Publisher: Londen/New York Phaidon

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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work by celebrated artists, photographers, scientists, and botanical illustrators, as well as rare and previously unpublished images.


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Taryn Simon : paperwork and the will of capital
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ISBN: 9783775741576 3775741577 Year: 2016 Publisher: Ostfildern Hatje Cantz

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In "Paperwork and the Will of Capital", Simon examines accords, treaties, and decrees drafted to influence systems of governance and economics, from nuclear armament to oil deals and diamond trading. All involve the countries present at the 1944 United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, which addressed the globalization of economics after World War II, leading to the establishment of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank. In images of the signings of these documents, powerful men flank floral centerpieces designed to underscore the importance of the parties present. Simon's photographs of the recreated centerpieces from these signings, together with their stories, underscore how the stagecraft of political and economic power is created, performed, marketed, and maintained. Each of Simon's recreations of these floral arrangements represents an “impossible bouquet”, a concept that emerged in Dutch still-life painting parallel to the country's seventeenth-century economic boom, which ushered in the development of modern capitalism. Then, the impossible bouquet was an artificial fantasy of flowers that could never bloom naturally in the same season and geographic location. Now the fantasy is made possible, both in the original signings and in Simons´' photographs by the global consumer market. -- publisher's statement.

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