Botanical Revolutions – How Plants Changed the Course of Art - Giovanni Aloi

Desired for their aesthetic beauty, sought after for their medicinal properties, harvested for their scents and flavors, or grown as indispensable material resources, plants are indissolubly entwined with our existence. In art it is no different: plants have played a critical role. Yet despite their significant material and conceptual contributions, plants have been sidelined in the commentary of art historians and critics. Botanical Revolutions presents a global history of plants in art, focusing... Zobrazit více