This book is about the power of cut flowers to move the onlooker. The book brings together a wide variety of ravishing illustrations of the cut flower in the history of fine and decorative art since 1500. It explains their symbolic meanings and demonstrates the response that flowers evoke in us all. The representation of flowers in many different cultures around the world enriches the visual material and illustrates the differences between faiths and traditions.
- ISBN10 0856675598
- ISBN13 9780856675591
- Publish Date December 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 March 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 96
- Language English