Mama Wants Some Flowers!

Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse

Published by Royal Academy Publications.
Text by Monty Don, Ann Dumas, Heather Lemonedes, Jamies Priest, William Robinson.

While depictions of gardens are found throughout history, the impressionists were among the first to portray gardens directly from life, focusing on their color and form rather than using them as a background. This volume explores the close, symbiotic relationship between artists and gardens that developed during the latter part of the 19th and first part of the 20th centuries, centering on Monet, a great horticulturalist as well as a great artist who cultivated gardens wherever he lived, and the creation of his masterpiece garden at Giverny, where he painted his renowned water-lilies series.
Beautifully illustrated with masterpieces by Monet and later painters—Renoir, Bonnard, Sargent, Klee, Kandinsky and Matisse, among others—Painting the Modern Garden traces the evolution of the garden theme from impressionist visions of light and atmosphere to retreats for reverie, sites for bold experimentation, sanctuaries, and, ultimately, signifiers of a world restored to order—a paradise regained.

PUBLISHER
Royal Academy Publications

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 12.25 x 11.5 in. / 328 pgs / 300 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/27/2015
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Cecily Brown & Jim Lewis: The English Garden

Published by Karma, New York.

Like nature, only better. Nature with all the awkward bits smoothed out. And then picturesque, like a landscape painting, states Jim Lewis' protagonist, defining an English garden in Cecily Brown's newest book of paintings. An imaginative pas de deux, The English Garden sees British painter Brown (born 1969) and American writer Lewis (born 1963) contribute acutely detailed and darkly sensuous allusions to the traditional 18th-century English landscape garden.
Thirty-nine of Brown's paintings are interspersed throughout this compact hardcover publication as tipped-in images. The largely abstract works, with glimpses of figurative elements, are a dichotomy of warm and subdued strokes of color, each containing an expansive landscape unto itself. Novelist and critic Jim Lewis' story transports the reader to the English countryside and investigates the seductive pull of the natural world in tandem with Brown's paintings. Combining two major voices in contemporary literature and painting, this volume is a truly gorgeous production.

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Karma, New York

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 6.25 x 6.75 in. / 72 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 7/28/2015
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ISBN 9781942607038 TRADE
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The Wirtz Gardens

Part III

Published by Wirtz International.
Photographs by Bertrand Limbour.

“[Jacques Wirtz's] painterly handling of light and shadow, like that of 17th-century Flemish painters, gives him 'a great power to evoke space . . . '” —Pilar Viladas, The New York Times

PUBLISHER
Wirtz International

BOOK FORMAT
Slip, hbk, 10.75 x 12.75 in. / 272 pgs / illustrated throughout.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/27/2018
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ISBN 9789085867081 FLAT40
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Flowers in the Louvre

Published by Skira Paris.
By Beatrice Vingtrinier. Foreword by Michel Lis.

A colorful promenade through the flower-strewn collection of the Louvre

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BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 7.75 x 7.75 in. / 80 pgs / 70 color.

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Pub Date 1/12/2010
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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.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/27/2015
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Gardens in Perpetual Bloom

Botanical Illustration in Europe and America 1600-1850

Published by MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Text by Nancy Keeler.

Originally developed as an aid to professional herbalists, botanical illustration quickly blossomed into an art form in its own right. The first flower books were intended as medicinal guides, or else illustrated volumes that catalogued the elaborate and extensive gardens of the well-to-do. But when Carl Linnaeus first classified the plant kingdom in 1735, the botanical book quickly took on a more scientific cast. By the nineteenth century, the flourishing of botanical publications reflected both the rapid rise of gardening as an amateur hobby and the desire of artists and decorators for new visual resources. Gardens in Perpetual Bloom: Botanical Illustration in Europe and America 1600–1850 traces the appreciation of flowers and their depiction, from the studious world of monks and princes to the era of the gardening enthusiast. The book's 110 prints and drawings—which include masterful engravings by Georg Dionysus Ehret, the eighteenth century's most accomplished botanical artist, and hand-colored prints by Pierre-Joseph Redouté, the premier draftsman of flowers for Marie Antoinette and Josephine Bonaparte—are remarkable for their technical virtuosity, delicate tonalities, scientific accuracy and seemingly infinite variety. Gardens in Perpetual Bloom is both a valuable historical survey and an affordable, attractively designed volume of jewel-like beauty.

PUBLISHER
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 7.5 x 9 in. / 136 pgs / 130 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/28/2010
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Judith Milberg: Works on Paper and Canvas 2015–2017

Published by Kerber.
Edited with text by Eva Karcher. Text by Bärbel Kopplin.

The paintings of Munich-based artist Judith Milberg abound with ornamental and floral motifs: filigree lines develop into rosettes, flowers and vegetable-like patterns swirl and flow over the picture ground. This publication surveys her work of the past three years.

PUBLISHER
Kerber

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 8.75 x 11 in. / 80 pgs / 39 color / 1 bw.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/27/2018
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Hannah Höch: Picture Book

Published by The Green Box.
Afterword by Gunda Luyken. Translated by Brian Currid.

A fantastical full-color children's book from the pioneering German photo-collagist

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The Green Box

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 10.75 x 8.75 in. / 44 pgs / 19 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 10/31/2010
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Pierre-Joseph Redouté: Botanical Artist to the Court of France

Published by nai010 publishers.
Text by Pieter Baas, Terry van Druten, Pascale Heurtel, Alain Pougetoux, et al.

Pierre-Joseph Redouté (1759–1840) is the undisputed master of botanical art. His illustrations of flowers represent a unique fusion of botanical precision with artistic elegance. As court artist to Queen Marie-Antoinette and Empress Joséphine, Redouté drew extraordinary flowers and plants from the Jardin des plantes and the gardens of Malmaison, which made him the darling of Parisian society. Napoleon presented his books as gifts to the crowned heads of Europe, and Redouté’s images illustrated the works of the most eminent scientists of his day. His most famous books, Les Liliacées and Les Roses, are among the milestones of botanical literature. Accompanying a survey of his works at the Teylers Museum in the Netherlands, this richly illustrated publication presents a wide selection of Redouté’s books, drawings and watercolors. Several short essays by Dutch and French specialists offer a comprehensive overview of the key aspects of his art.

PUBLISHER
nai010 publishers

BOOK FORMAT
Paperback, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 168 pgs / 248 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 9/30/2013
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Anna Zemánková

Published by Kant.
Edited by Anežka Šimková, Terezie Zemánková. Preface by Roger Cardinal. Text by Eva Ko?átková, Terezie Zemánková, Manuel Anceau, Pascale Jeanneret, Bruno Decharme. Interview by Pavel Konecný.

“I am growing flowers that are not grown anywhere else”: the fantastical botanica of an Art Brut genius

PUBLISHER
Kant

BOOK FORMAT
Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 213 color.

PUBLISHING STATUS
Pub Date 2/27/2018
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ISBN 9788074372315 TRADE
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