A01=Randy Malamud
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
arrangements
Author_Randy Malamud
automatic-update
botany
bouquet
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=HBTB
Category=NHTB
Category=WFW
celebration
ceremony
church hats
COP=United Kingdom
curation
cut flowers
deconstructed
decor
decoration
Delivery_Delivery within 10-20 working days
design
ephemeral
eq_bestseller
eq_crafts-hobbies
eq_history
eq_isMigrated=1
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
fashion
flower power
gardens
glass
history
Language_English
murals
nature
nonfiction
PA=Available
painting
pastoral
popular culture
pressed
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Active
public art
representation
rural
softlaunch
spring
symbolism
weaponized
youth
Product details
- ISBN 9781789144017
- Dimensions: 190 x 250mm
- Publication Date: 16 Aug 2021
- Publisher: Reaktion Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Virginia Woolf’s novel famously begins – ‘Mrs Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself.’ Of course she would: why would anyone surrender the best part of the day to someone else? Flowers grace our lives at moments of celebration and despair. ‘We eat, drink, sing, dance, and flirt with them’, writes Kakuzo Okakura. Flowers brighten our homes, our parties, and our rituals with incomparable notes of natural beauty, but the ‘nature’ in these displays is tamed and conscribed. This book analyzes the transplanted nature of cut flowers – of our relationship with them and the careful curation of their very existence.
It is a picaresque, unpredictable ramble through the world of flowers, encompassing paintings, murals, fashion, and public art, glass flowers, pressed flowers, flowery church hats, weaponized flowers, deconstructed flowers, flower power. . . and much more.
Randy Malamud, Regents’ Professor of English at Georgia State University, has written eleven books including Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity, The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist, and Email.
