Booktopia has been placed into Voluntary Administration. Orders have been temporarily suspended, whilst the process for the recapitalisation of Booktopia and/or sale of its business is completed, following which services may be re-established. All enquiries from creditors, including customers with outstanding gift cards and orders and placed prior to 3 July 2024, please visit https://www.mcgrathnicol.com/creditors/booktopia-group/
Add free shipping to your order with these great books
The Dominion of Flowers : Botanical Art and Global Plant Relations - Mark Laird

The Dominion of Flowers

Botanical Art and Global Plant Relations

By: Mark Laird

Hardcover | 15 October 2024 | Edition Number 1

Sorry, we are not able to source the book you are looking for right now.

We did a search for other books with a similar title, however there were no matches. You can try selecting from a similar category, click on the author's name, or use the search box above to find your book.

How a wave of exotic botanical imports from across Britain's empire shaped its gardens and psyche

Between 1760 and 1840, exotic plants were imported from across Britain's empire and were lavishly depicted in periodicals and scientific treatises as specimens collected alongside other objects of natural history. Mark Laird's provocative new book-part art history, part polemic-weaves fine art, botanical illustration, and previously unpublished archival material into a political and ethical account of Britain's heritage, showing how plants were not only integral to English gardens of the Georgian and Victorian eras but also to British culture more broadly.

The Dominion of Flowers shines with captivating cross-cultural plant stories. The book opens with the Seymers' exotic Butterflies and Plants and Pulteney's catalogue of Dorset's native wildflowers. It then moves to the German artist John Miller and his illustrations for Lord Bute's Botanical Tables and concludes by tracing Britain's fascination with New Zealand's unique flora, first depicted in Mary Delany's collages.

Copiously illustrated with almost two hundred works, and drawing on Laird's genealogical research into his own family's colonial past, this volume foregrounds Indigenous ideas about "plant relations" in a study that brings the trans-oceanic movement of plants and people alive.

More in Art Treatments & Subjects

Vincent Namatjira - Vincent Namatjira

RRP $90.00

$58.95

34%
OFF
The Vanishing Point - Andrea Hotere

RRP $34.99

$31.75

Dark Souls : Design Works - From Software

FREE SHIPPING

RRP $71.99

$32.25

55%
OFF
Shake Puppies - Carli Davidson

Hardcover

RRP $24.99

$12.25

51%
OFF
Petal : The World of Flowers Through an Artist's Eye - Adriana Picker
Botanicals by Edith Rewa: Gift Cards : Card and Envelope Set - Edith Rewa
Painting Happiness : Creativity with Watercolors - Terry Runyan
Anatomy Of A Metahuman - DC Comics - S.D. Perry

RRP $75.00

$50.35

33%
OFF
Final Fantasy VII Remake : Material Ultimania - SQUARE ENIX

RRP $69.99

$47.35

32%
OFF
Artful Lives : The Cohen Sisters - Penny Olsen

RRP $39.99

$35.35

12%
OFF
The Art of Sean Phillips - Sean Phillips

FREE SHIPPING

RRP $71.99

$40.80

43%
OFF
Monet : Basic Arts Series - Christoph Heinrich

RRP $34.99

$31.75

Andy Warhol : A Graphic Biography - Michele Botton

RRP $39.99

$35.35

12%
OFF
The Art of Zenescope : Z-Rated Edition - Various Artists

FREE SHIPPING

RRP $233.99

$108.25

54%
OFF