Plant: Exploring the Botanical World (Compact Edition)
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Plant: Exploring the Botanical World is a beautifully curated celebration of botanical art and imagery, now available in a compact hardback edition that is easy to pick up, gift and enjoy again and again.
Featuring 300 of the most beautiful and pioneering botanical images ever created, this richly illustrated book explores the beauty and diversity of plants through paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and striking micrograph scans. The carefully arranged pages create unexpected visual connections, revealing how plants have inspired artists, makers and image-makers across time and across cultures.
Part of the Phaidon Compacts series, it is a lovely book for plant lovers, gardeners, artists and anyone drawn to botanical imagery and design.
Series: Phaidon Compacts
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9781837291472
Pages: 340
Dimensions: 188 x 162 mm
By Phaidon Editors
Introduction: James Compton
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