Birds & Blooms

On the Necessity of Gardening

An ABC of Art, Botany and Cultivation

Published by Valiz.
Edited with text by Laurie Cluitmans. Text by Marieke Barnas, Liesbeth Helmus, Erik de Jong, René de Kam, Alhena Katsof, Jamaica Kincaid, Catriona Sandilands, Patricia de Vries, et al.

From Arcadia to Guerilla Gardening, Bomarzo to Little Sparta, Roberto Burle Marx to Fritz Haeg, the Anthropocene to Vibrant Matter: a brilliant and radical A–Z of garden history and garden politics

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Valiz

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 240 pgs / 50 color / 150 bw.

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Pub Date 11/23/2021
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Let's Become Fungal!

Mycelium Teachings and the Arts: Based on Conversations with Indigenous Wisdom Keepers, Artists, Curators, Feminists and Mycologists

Published by Valiz.
By Yasmine Ostendorf-Rodríguez. Illustrations by Rommy González.

Twelve lessons in fungal activism, Indigenous knowledge and collaboration for artists, gardeners, educators and anyone intrigued by the fascinating life and inspiring metaphors of the mycelium and the mushroom

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Valiz

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 336 pgs / 50 color / 80 bw.

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Pub Date 10/24/2023
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Brian Clarke: Vespers

Published by HENI Publishing.
Preface by Brian Clarke. Introduction by Robert Storr.

A sumptuous watercolor homage to poppies, from the artist’s London garden

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HENI Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.25 x 12.25 in. / 532 pgs / 559 color.

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Pub Date 4/27/2021
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Botanical: Observing Beauty

Published by JBE Books/Chaumet.
Text by Filipa Ramos, Emanuele Coccia, Alice Thomine-Berrada, Estelle Zhong Mengual. Conversation with Jean-Marc Mansvelt, Marc Jeanson.

A gorgeous botanical tour of art and design across the ages

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JBE Books/Chaumet

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 336 pgs / 185 color / 65 bw.

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Pub Date 9/20/2022
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Garden Futures

Designing with Nature

Published by Vitra Design Museum.
Text by Jamaica Kincaid, Gilles Clement, Leo den Dulk, Oliver Sukrow, Kris Kozlowski.

The garden as laboratory for our Anthropocene future, from Derek Jarman to Piet Oudolf, urban farming to vertical gardens

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Vitra Design Museum

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 220 pgs / 200 color.

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Pub Date 6/13/2023
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Landscape Painting Now

From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism

Published by D.A.P..
Edited by Todd Bradway. Text by Barry Schwabsky. Contributions by Susan A. Van Scoy, Robert R. Shane, Louise Sørensen.

From fantastical worlds to political topologies: a global survey of landscape painting in the 21st century

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D.A.P.

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11 x 10.25 in. / 368 pgs / 420 color.

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Pub Date 4/23/2019
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ISBN 9781942884262 TRADE
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Lucas Samaras: Flowers

Published by Pace Publishing.

Lush and psychedelic digital depictions of flowers

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Pace Publishing

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 11 x 10 in. / 220 pgs / 110 color.

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Pub Date 1/16/2024
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Walasse Ting: Parrot Jungle

Published by SKIRA.
Edited with text by Ariella Wolens.

Ting’s signature motifs of parrots and hibiscus flowers draw their inspiration from his time in Florida

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SKIRA

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 150 color.

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Pub Date 3/5/2024
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Leendert Blok: Silent Beauties

Color Photographs from the 1920s

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Gilles Clément.

Leendert Blok experimented with color photography and the use of the panoramic format. In the 1920s, the Dutch photographer worked in close collaboration with flower producers, providing color prints and autochromes for the display catalogues of the various species they cultivated. Blok portrayed flowers as objects of desire, using the Autochrome Lumière technique.
For Blok, photography related above all to the gaze. Muted tones and soft bronze hues reveal a timeless world of flora, in which corolla, petals and buds are sublimated by chiaroscuro. The flowers stand out against a plain dark background, alluding to the famous vanitas genre of the Dutch Golden Age. Tulips, dahlias, daffodils, irises, hyacinths and peonies reveal themselves in all their glorious diversity. Blok's photographs are reminiscent of botanists' slides of yore, immersing us in the immanence of plant life, in which each flower becomes a sculpture.

Leendert Blok (1895-1986) was born in Holland and studied journalism in South Africa before returning to Lisse, near Amsterdam, where he established his Photo Technischbureau company, for which he procured work from nearby horticulturalists, producing their display catalogues while experimenting with panoramic formats and color photography. From 1925, when the use of color photography was relatively rare, he began using the autochrome technique, which involved making composite images from three-color separations on glass plates with potato starches. The resulting images could not be duplicated.

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Clth, 7.75 x 10.25 in. / 176 pgs / 154 color.

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Pub Date 10/27/2015
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Catalog: FALL 2015 p. 42   

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A Song of Flowers: Ni Xochitl, Ni Kuikatl

Published by JBE Books.
Edited by Mardonio Caballo, Fernando Laposse. Text by Mardonio Caballo. Introduction by Alberto Manguel. Illustrations by Fernando Laposse.

An ode to nature, poetry and design, this sumptuously produced book illuminates an understudied language and its poetic traditions

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JBE Books

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 7.5 x 14 in. / 120 pgs / 21 color / 14 bw.

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Pub Date 4/16/2024
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Luiz Zerbini: Botanica

Monotypes 2016–2020

Published by Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris.
Text by Luiz Zerbini, Emanuele Coccia, Stefano Mancuso.

Exquisite monotypes celebrating the beauty of plants by transforming them into inky abstractions

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Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 10 x 15 in. / 320 pgs / 300 color.

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Pub Date 9/7/2021
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Felix Dobbert: Floral Works

Published by Kerber.
Edited with text by Barbara Welzel. Text by Stefan Rasche, Stefan Rebenich, Sabine Sachweh, Anja Schürmann.

Eight years of stunning contemporary still life photography featuring flowers

PUBLISHER
Kerber

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 128 pgs / 49 color.

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Pub Date 5/23/2023
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Sanna Kannisto: Observing Eye

Published by Hatje Cantz.
Text by Steve Barker.

Kannisto photographs birds in the style of classic wildlife illustrations, capturing the delicate beauty of her avian subjects in painterly detail

PUBLISHER
Hatje Cantz

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 10 x 11.5 in. / 144 pgs / 100 color.

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Pub Date 10/27/2020
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Catalog: FALL 2020 p. 96   

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ISBN 9783775747912 TRADE
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