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Zoom Ocean Flowers : Impressions from Nature
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Zoom Ocean Flowers : Impressions from Nature
Zoom Ocean Flowers : Impressions from Nature
Zoom Ocean Flowers : Impressions from Nature
Zoom Ocean Flowers : Impressions from Nature
Zoom Ocean Flowers : Impressions from Nature
Zoom Ocean Flowers : Impressions from Nature
Zoom Ocean Flowers : Impressions from Nature

Ocean Flowers : Impressions from Nature

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An inspiring book of shapes and patterns of ocean plant life. Over 200 color illustrations accompany the scholarly texts. Most illustrations are beautiful full-page plates of ocean flower drawings and photographs from the 1800's.

Pages are clean, crisp, and like-new. Boards and dust jacket edges have minor edge and corner wear. Spine has slight lean. Very good book in very good jacket.

"A work of stunning beauty, Ocean Flowers explores a little-known moment of exhilarating artistic experimentation. The book focuses on natural-history imagery in the mid-nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on botanical drawings and photograms by the artist Anna Atkins (1799-1871) and her Victorian contemporaries.

Besides providing a feast for the eyes, the book illuminates intriguing shifts in the way the natural world was represented. In the mid 1800s, the advent of photography provided new possibilities, generating as much creative fervor as digital media have in recent years. In addition to hand-made drawings, hand-colored prints, nature prints (direct imprints from plants), and natural illustrations (real specimens mounted on the page), artists began making photogenic drawings (as William Henry Fox Talbot first dubbed his early photographs) to record botanical specimens. A kind of "drawing with light," this new art form complemented, rather than superceded, the other forms of graphic media. Far from rendering conventional approaches obsolete, it encouraged experimentation with all kinds of media.

Ocean Flowers demonstrates how this concept of "fluidity" in crossing the traditional borders between media is paralleled in the contemporary art world. Replete with 200 color illustrations, the book accompanies an exhibition of the same name organized by the Drawing Center in New York City in association with the Yale Center for British Art. More than just an exhibition catalog, it includes essays by the coeditors, as well as by the artist Craigie Horsfield and scholars Edward Eigen, Elaine Scarry, and Kathryn Tuma. " - from the dust jacket flap

8.5 x 10.5 inches

Hardcover with jacket

Condition : Very Good

Princeton University Press 2004

ISBN : 9780691119489

312 pages

Ocean Flowers : Impressions from Nature

$150

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