{"product_id":"botanical-observing-beauty-9782365680608","title":"Botanical: Observing Beauty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA gorgeous botanical tour of art and design across the ages\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis handsome volume invites readers on an intimate stroll through centuries of jewelry, botany, drawing, prints, video-game imagery and scientific illustrations, offering a primer on the beauty and ingenuity of nature as reflected in art. Five contributions punctuate the visually structured journey, including a previously unpublished leporello by the late artist Etal Adnan that pulls out into a six-page gatefold. Indeed, this book-as-object is a masterpiece in and of itself, featuring a cover infused with fluorescent and silver inks and titled with a serigraph, in addition to eight pages of sumptuous endpapers printed in deep forest green.\u003cbr\u003eA coterie of international thinkers guide \u003ci\u003eBotanical\u003c\/i\u003e's ambitious scope and aim: Emanuele Coccia, Italian philosopher and author of \u003ci\u003eThe Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture\u003c\/i\u003e (2018); Estelle Zhong Mengual, French art historian; Filipa Ramos, Portuguese curator and author of the upcoming book \u003ci\u003eThe Artist as Ecologist\u003c\/i\u003e (2023). Through their rigorous and engaging essays, they unravel the mysterious inner workings of nature and celebrate the visionary mimetic art born from culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eArtists and designers include\u003c\/b\u003e: Noyubushi Araki, Emile Gallé, Joan Fontcuberta, Christian Dior, Claude Monet, Sarah Bernhardt, Eugène Delacroix, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Anna Atkins, Gustave Courbet, Henri Cartier-Bresson, René Lalique, Georgia O'Keeffe, Otto Dix, Robert Mapplethorpe and Yves Saint-Laurent.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Jbe Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/20\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9782365680608\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.40h x 8.30w x 1.30d","brand":"Filipa Ramos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42362416529589,"sku":"9782365680608","price":42.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_110d50ba-5b04-46c1-ab99-b2fee42d18ac.jpg?v=1662435155","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/botanical-observing-beauty-9782365680608","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}