The Secret Language of Plants
Art, Nature & Symbolism
$42.75
- Hardcover
240 pages
- Release Date
28 August 2025
Summary
An elegant reference guide to the meaning of plants in art and life.
From early Egyptian reverence for the acacia and the lotus, to the Victorian language of flowers and the works of Vincent Van Gogh and Georgia O’Keeffe, we have long sought meaning in nature. Significance has often been ascribed to particular plants, referencing their uses as food or medicine, their associations with saints and heroes, or more abstract or aesthetic qualities like fortitude, beauty an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780500028179 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0500028176 |
| Author: | Hope B. Werness |
| Publisher: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Imprint: | Thames & Hudson Ltd |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 28 August 2025 |
| Weight: | 772g |
| Dimensions: | 34mm x 231mm x 177mm |
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Encyclopaedic … packed with examples of horticulture’s insistent presence in art, the world of flowers can prompt a cornucopia of reactions and emotions * Waldemar Januszczak, Sunday Times *
About The Author
Hope B. Werness
Dr. Hope Werness is an art historian specializing in non-Western and modern European art. She has taught for over twenty years at California State University, Stanislaus. She is the author of, among other books, The Continuum Encyclopedia of Native Art (2000) and The Encyclopedia of Animal Symbolism in World Art (2006).
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