Conceived and edited by Phaidon editors
As featured in the Atlanta Journal Constitution, The Daily
Telegraph, Garden & Gun, Gardens Illustrated, The Guardian, Martha
Stewart Living, Natural History Magazine, New Scientist, Newsweek,
The San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Times, Smithsonian, The
Sunday Times, Tatler, The Wall Street Journal, and on Atlas
Obscura, BBC Focus, Goop, and mental floss'The ultimate gift for
gardeners and art-lovers.' – Goop'A breathtaking collection of
botanical prints, photos, drawings, and even micrograph scans.' –
Martha Stewart Living'Plant may start on your coffee table, but it
won't stay there for long.' – Flower Magazine'An extraordinary
collection.' – Gardens Illustrated
'I am totally mesmerized by the extraordinary range of artists,
scientists and technicians represented. Wonderful and absorbing and
loving.' – Edwina von Gal, Landscape Designer 'From the
winning cover to the beautiful images inside, Plant is a complete
pleasure covering centuries of botanical art. Artist information
and provenance is dutifully recorded. Inspiration and imagination
is there for the taking. This new book is classic Phaidon and bound
to be a bestseller.' – David Whitman, Pergola 'The timeless
pleasure of looking at plants: a new illustrated book examines
mankind's fascination with making images of plants through the
ages... Compton's fascination with what different people have done
within the remit of botanical art jumps out of every one of Plant's
pages. The variety is astounding.' – The Daily Telegraph 'An
inspiring delight and great resource for those who cherish all
things botany.' – Emily Thompson, Emily Thompson Flowers 'The
side by side juxtapositions of images here are brilliant. The clear
pencil drawings of Van Gogh and Ellsworth Kelly my favorites, so
delicate, just gorgeous.' – Perry Guillot, Landscape Architect
'My award for sumptuous volume of 2016 has to go to Plant:
Exploring the Botanical World, 300 works of botanical art from
ancient times to the present in every imaginable medium... The
images are thought-provokingly juxtaposed.' – The Sunday
Times, Move 'Botanical art of all kinds, from a Minoan fresco of
swallows billing among ocher red Lilium chalecondicum, painted
circa 1600 B.C., to a hand-colored image from a scanning electron
microscope of the seed of an alpine pincushion flower, its
plum-colored skirts floating like a ballerina mid-jeté. These are
things of beauty, but they have a purpose beyond decoration.
Plant's editors [...] don't confine themselves to the strictly
scientific.' – Newsweek 'Celebrates the beauty and diversity
of plants from around the world across all media - from murals in
ancient Greece to a Napoleonic-era rose print and cutting-edge
scans.' – The Guardian '300 of the loveliest botanical images
ever collated.' – Town and Country 'A glorious visual
compendium of plants and flowers that spans thousands of years.'
– Atlas Obscura 'This beautiful new book is like having a
botanical art exhibition on your coffee table.' – Waitrose
Weekend 'A glorious presentation of how we've represented flora and
fauna in art and photography throughout history.' – Outdoor
Photography 'Gorgeous... Fascinating... [An] unprecedented range of
artists... A highly nuanced curation of imagery from across the
ages. An indispensable coffee table book for the green-fingered and
mere admirers alike.' – AnOther Magazine 'It might be a bit
early, but this one's already on our Christmas list.' – BBC
Focus 'A non-chronological approach illuminates intriguing
contrasts and similarities in the artists' approach to capturing
vegetation... Each page will surprise.' – Smithsonian 'A
lavishly illustrated guide to the fascinating world of plants, this
book is a feast for the eyes and will bring joy to anyone with
green-fingered tendencies, or simply an appreciation for the
diverse beauty of nature.' – theweek.co.uk 'More than 3,000
years of beautiful botanical art... The stories behind the pictures
are just as eye-opening... A gorgeously illustrated survey that
would make the perfect gift for a plant lover.' – Daily Mail,
Weekend 'Here's one you'll have trouble deciding whether to keep or
wrap, and as you mull over the decision, each flick to a new page
will shift you ever closer to finding some other gift for that
art-loving or plant-loving friend... The images and stories are a
reminder of our complex love affair with plants, and make for an
addictive, page-turning treat.' – The Sydney Morning Herald
'From ancient stone carvings and watercolour illustrations, to the
first photography and cutting-edge scans, this history of botanical
art explores our endless fascination with nature.' – SA Life
'Plant, Exploring the Botanical World is a seriously beautiful
book... The design is beautiful, as expected of a Phaidon
publication, and the stories behind each of the artworks are
fascinating. What I enjoyed most about it was the range of imagery
included - this is not your average botanical illustration book but
more a book of art inspired by plants.' – The Planthunter
'What better way to spend a dreary winter afternoon than paging
through gorgeous, full-color pictures of flowers? Not just flowers,
but roots, stems, leaves, seeds and fruits, too, captured in 300
images of sketches, paintings, photographs, carvings, engravings
and pressings that date from 1352 B.C. to the present... The
greatest joy comes from stumbling upon the unexpected.'
– Atlanta Journal Constitution 'Breathtaking... [This] hefty
coffee table book features 300 remarkable pieces of plant-related
art.' – mental_floss 'We love this survey of botanical art...
Its pages teach you about plants, it reveals much about the time
period and culture in which these images were created.' – Real
Living 'What is rather lovely about this book, which unites 300
botanical images from ancient stone carvings to vivid micrograph
scans, is its non-chronological arrangement. Instead, it mixes
botanical art from different periods, charting the depiction of
plants through interesting pairings.' – House & Garden
'Botanical beauty... Art and science were often close allies when
images of flowers were created centuries ago, and that remains true
with the latest photographic technology. ' – Independent 'The
rich range of imagery is spectacular.' – Lugene Bruno, curator
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation
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