Ocean flowers : impressions from nature / edited by Carol Armstrong & Catherine de Zegher.
New York : Drawing Center ; Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2004.
288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 27 cm
"The book focuses on natural-history imagery in the mid-nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on the botanical drawings and photograms by the artist Anna Atkins (1799-1871) and her Victorian contemporaries." "In addition to providing a feast for the eyes, the book illuminates shifts in the way the natural world was represented. In the mid-1800s, the advent of photography provided new possibilities, generating as much creative fervor as digital media have in recent years. In addition to handmade drawings, hand-colored prints, nature prints (direct imprints from plants), and natural illustrations (real specimens mounted on the page), artists began making photogenic drawings (as William Henry Fox Talbot first dubbed his early photographs) to record botanical specimens. A kind of "drawing with light," this new art form complemented, rather than superseded, the other forms of graphic media. Far from rendering conventional approaches obsolete, it encouraged experimentation with all kinds of media." "Ocean Flowers demonstrates how this concept of "fluidity" in crossing the traditional borders between media is paralleled in the contemporary art world. Replete with two hundred color illustrations, the book accompanies an exhibition of the same name organized by The Drawing Center in New York in association with the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut. More than just an exhibition catalogue, it includes essays by the coeditors, as well as by the artist Craigie Horsfield and scholars Edward Eigen, Elaine Scarry, and Kathryn A. Tuma."--Jacket
0691119481
9780691119489
Atkins, Anna, 1799-1871 New York (N. Y.) Exhibitions
Botanical illustration Great Britain Exhibitions.
Plant prints Great Britain Exhibitions.
Nature prints Great Britain Exhibitions.
Nature photography Great Britain History Exhibitions.
Seashore plants Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Algae Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Botany.
Illustrated books.
Books, Illustrated
History, 19th Century
Illustration botanique Grande-Bretagne Expositions.
Plantes Empreintes Grande-Bretagne Expositions.
Impression naturelle directe Grande-Bretagne Expositions.
Photographie de la nature Grande-Bretagne Histoire Expositions.
Flore des rivages Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Algues Ouvrages illustrés Expositions.
Botanique.
Livres illustrés.
Médecine Histoire 19e siècle.
botany.
illustrated books.
Algae
Botanical illustration
Nature photography
Nature prints
Plant prints
Seashore plants
United Kingdom
Great Britain
1800-1899
Pictorial Work.
Exhibition.
exhibition catalogs.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works
Exhibition catalogs
Exhibition, pictorial works
History
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Armstrong, Carol, 1953- editor.
Zegher, M. Catherine de, editor.
Drawing Center (New York, N.Y.), publisher, host institution.
Yale Center for British Art, host institution.
Princeton University Press, publisher.
Location: Library main 232079
Call No.: TR724 .O34 2004
Status: Available
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