Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers - Hardcover

Malamud, Randy

 
9781789144017: Strange Bright Blooms: A History of Cut Flowers
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1789144019 ISBN 13: 9781789144017
Verlag: Reaktion Books, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

Virginia Woolfs novel famously begins Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. Of course she would: why would anyone surrender the best part of the day to someone else? Flowers grace our lives at moments of celebration and despair. We eat, drink, sing, dance, and flirt with them, writes Kakuzo Okakura. Flowers brighten our homes, our parties, and our rituals with incomparable notes of natural beauty, but the nature in these displays is tamed and conscribed. This book analyzes the transplanted nature of cut flowers of our relationship with them and the careful curation of their very existence.It is a picaresque, unpredictable ramble through the world of flowers, encompassing paintings, murals, fashion, and public art, glass flowers, pressed flowers, flowery church hats, weaponized flowers, deconstructed flowers, flower power. . . and much more.

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Randy Malamud is Regents’ Professor of English at Georgia State University. He has written eleven books, including Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity, The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist, and Email.

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Verlag
Reaktion Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2021
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1789144019
ISBN 13 
9781789144017
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
324
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