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50 ans d'explorations et d'études botaniques en forêt tropicale
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ISBN: 9782373750195 2373750198 2373750163 Year: 2016 Publisher: [Plaissan]: Museo,


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The art of botanical illustration
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ISBN: 9781851497607 1851497609 Year: 2015 Publisher: Woodbridge ACC Art Books


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Visible empire : botanical expeditions and visuel culture in the hispanic enlightenment
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ISBN: 9780226058535 0226058530 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chicago ; London University of Chicago Press


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The tradescants' orchard : the mystery of a seventeenth-century painted fruit book
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ISBN: 9781851242771 1851242775 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford Bodleian Library

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"In the early seventeenth century there was eager interest, among the leisured classes, in fruits from the Mediterranean and beyond, not least for the kitchen gardens and orchards of England's grand houses. The volume of charming, vibrant, almost primitive watercolour paintings of orchard fruits on the branch, popularly known as 'Tradescants' Orchard', is a precious and fragile relic of this era of broadening horticultural horizons. This manuscript, traditionally associated with the renowned plantsmen, the John Tradescants, was among the eclectic collections of Elias Ashmole which, after his death in 1692, formed the basis of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. Then, in 1860 it was transferred to the Bodleian Library. It has been quietly recognized as a mysterious treasure, yet the paintings raise many unanswered questions. Who painted them, and for whom? What was their purpose? Only one apple is represented - were there once others, now missing? Whose handwriting appears in the manuscript? Why did the artist paint wildlife such as birds, frogs and butterflies on many of the folios? All sixty-six of the original illustrations are reproduced here in facsimile for the first time, following a general introduction which maps out the mystery of why and how these beguiling watercolours came to be commissioned and made."--Publisher's description.


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Writing a Chrysanthemum : the drawings of Rick Barton
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ISBN: 9781636810386 1636810381 Year: 2021 Publisher: New-York: Morgan Library & Museum,

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This first ever book on the Bay Area Beat artist reveals a unique drawing style that dovetails Cocteau with Japanese and Renaissance printmaking. “Rick Barton should have been a San Francisco legend,” declared author and artist Etel Adnan in a 1998 essay. Working primarily in pen or brush and ink in a kaleidoscopic linear style, Barton (1928–92), who was born and raised in New York and settled in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 1950s, ceaselessly recorded the world around him, whether the enclosed space of his room, the cafes in which he spent his days, his lovers and friends, or the ornate churches and botanical subjects that seem to have held particular fascination for him. Flourishing in San Francisco’s gay and Beat subcultures of the 1950s and ’60s, Barton accrued a group of disciples who were drawn to his singular style, which synthesized sources as disparate as Renaissance and Japanese woodblock prints and the delicate line drawings of Jean Cocteau. Bringing together more than 60 drawings, two accordion-folded sketchbooks, and printed portfolios and books, Writing a Chrysanthemum: The Drawings of Rick Barton presents for the first time the work of this unique artist who was a significant, and until now unheralded, figure of the Beat era. Rachel Federman, the curator of the exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum, has written a deeply researched essay on the artist and his work. An excerpt of Adnan’s essay―the first published account of Barton―is reprinted in the catalog.


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Flowers in history : Gentse floraliën (1808-2008)
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ISBN: 9789020977363 9789020977370 9789020976090 9020977369 9020977377 Year: 2008 Publisher: Tielt : Lannoo,

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