Full Description
With their splendour and diversity flowers have always captivated us. They possess great symbolic power - whether in mythology, religion, art or politics. In earlier centuries, flowers were coveted status symbols, today they are traded globally as a mass product. Currently, the flower is coming into focus as a fragile yet indispensable component of our global eco-system. With objects from art, design, fashion and natural science, Flowers offers a fascinating, elaborately staged tour through the cultural history of flowers from antiquity to the present day.
This volume comprises around 170 works from international collections, by Jan Brueghel the Younger, Abraham Mignon, Barbara Regina Dietzsch, Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Hannah Höch, Andreas Gursky, Miguel Chevalier, Ann Carrington, Patricia Kaersenhout, Kehinde Wiley, DRIFT, and many other artists. They all bring the multifaceted cultural history of flowers to life in impressive ways.
Text in English and Italian.
Contents
Franziska Stöhr
22 I FIORI COME SIMBOLO
Mitologia, religione, letteratura e politica: un dialogo
con Isabel Kranz, Randy Malamud e D. Fairchild Ruggles
23 FLOWERS AS SYMBOLS
Mithology, Religion, Literature and Politics: A conversation
with Isabel Kranz, Randy Malamud and D. Fairchild Ruggles
Suzanne Landau
50 IL FIORE CHE SORRIDE OGGI
5 1 THE FLOWER THAT SMILES TODAY
68 ECOLOGIA / ECOLOGY
84 MITOLOGIA E RELIGIONI / MYTHOLOGY AND RELIGIONS
92 CAMERA DELLE MERAVIGLIE / WUNDERKAMMER
154 POLITICA / POLITICS
