Flower Power: The Meaning of Flowers in Art, 1500-2000

by Anna Pavord, Andrew Moore, Christopher Garibaldi

This lavishly illustrated book demonstrates the power of cut flowers to move the onlooker, a power crucial to the adop-tion of flowers in every culture to symbolize life, beauty, and death. All religions have flowers at the heart of their faith. Art has proved an enduring companion in the repre-sentation of the power of flowers to move. Flower Power brings together a wide variety of ravishing ren-derings and photographs 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 people everywhere. The illustrations of flowers in many different cultures around the world highlight the differences between faiths and traditions.

96 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Anna Pavord is the gardening correspondent for THE INDEPENDENT and the author of widely praised gardening books including PLANT PARTNERS and THE BORDER BOOK. She wrote for the OBSERVER for twenty years, has contributed to COUNTRY LIFE, ELLE DECORATION and COUNTRY LIVING, and is an associate editor of GARDENS ILLUSTRATED. For the last thirty years she has lived in Dorset, England where she is currently making a new garden. Constantly experimenting with new combinations of flowers and foliage, she finds it a tremendous source of inspiration. -http://www.bloomsbury.com/author/anna...