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By Any Other Name: A Cultural History of the Rose

3.73 (33 ratings by Goodreads)

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By (author): Simon Morley

A beautifully illustrated history of the Queen of Flowers and her enduring power in our gardens, art, religion and imagination.

Fascinating... Ill never look at a rose in quite the same way again. Adrian Tinniswood

The rose is bursting with meaning. Over the centuries it has come to represent love and sensuality, deceit, death and the mystical unknown. Today the rose enjoys unrivalled popularity across the globe, ever present at lifes seminal moments.

Grown in the Middle East two thousand years ago for its pleasing scent and medicinal properties, it has become one of the most adored flowers across cultures, no longer selected by nature, but by us. The rose is well-versed at enchanting human hearts. From Shakespeares sonnets to Bulgarias Rose Valley to the thriving rose trade in Africa and the Far East, via museums, high fashion, Victorian England and Belle Epoque France, we meet an astonishing array of species and hybrids of remarkably different provenance.

This is the story of a hardy, thorny flower and how, by beauty and charm, it came to seduce the world.

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Fascinating material, surveyed with relish and acumen. Times Literary Supplement

Morleys book is, in part, the story of how humans came to raise roses so consistently and abundantly that we demand them even in freezing February. First, though, By Any Other Name recounts the love affair with a flower that drove us to want to do that in the first place. Wall Street Journal

An intellectual and artistic journey digging around the history of how roses have become entangled with human life. By Any Other Name will be a source of inspiration for us. Kim Wook-Kyun, President of the South Korea Rose Society

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  • Dimensions: 153 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 07 Oct 2021
  • Publisher: Oneworld Publications
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780861540525

About Simon Morley

Simon Morley is a British artist and art historian. He is the author of several books and catalogue essays on modern and contemporary art and his art reviews and essays have been published in numerous magazines and journals including the TLS Modern Painters Tate Magazine the Independent on Sunday World Art and Third Text. Previously a lecturer at the Sotheby's Institute and at Winchester School of Art he is now Assistant Professor of Fine Art at Dankook University Republic of Korea. He is also a keen rose gardener.

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