The art of the flower : the floral still life from the 17th to the 20th century / edited by Hans-Michael Herzog ; with essays by Hans-Michael Herzog, Norbert Schneider and Rolf Sachsse.

By: Blumenstucke Kunststucke (Exhibition) (Kunsthalle Bielefeld).

Contributor(s): Herzog, Hans-Michael, 1956- | Schneider, Norbert, 1945- | Sachsse, Rolf | Kunsthalle Bielefeld .

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BookPublisher: Kilchberg : Edition Stemmle, 1996Description: 143 p. : chiefly ill (some col.) ; 32 cm.ISBN: 3905514958 .Subject(s): Flowers in art

| Still-life in art

DDC classification: 758.42

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Library Lending	758.42 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		00052746

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The "flower piece" has existed as an art genre since the 16th century, but for decades the floral still life was considered unworthy of artists' attention because of its alleged superficiality and bourgeois banality. But now in the nineties, this old motif is enjoying a revival. ART OF THE FLOWER places the genre in its historical perspective.

Catalogue of the exhibition Blumenstucke Kunststucke, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 129-143)

Published in association with Kunsthalle Bielefeld.

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Publishers Weekly Review

The strength of this handsomely illustrated volume, published in conjunction with an exhibition at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany, is in its beautiful color and duotone reproductions, arranged to show how modern floral still-life artists have broken with tradition. In one sequence, a delicate 17th-century painting of a tulip is followed by Helmut Schweizer's series of photographs in which a single tulip is callously destroyed. In another, a vase of golden chrysanthemums by the 19th-century painter Henri Fantin-Latour is placed on a page facing Helen Chadwick's sexually suggestive photograph of yellow flowers arranged in concentric circles on a gelatinous substance and titled "Wreath to Pleasure." In the brief, sometimes opaque, introductory essays, Herzog, chief curator at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, traces the history of the floral still life from the sumptuous bouquets of 17th-century painters to the contemporary artists' rejection of prettiness in favor of morbid, erotic, unnatural or technological themes. Schneider discusses this art form during the 17th and 18th centuries; and Sachsse treats flower photography. (Apr.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved