Plants: exploring the botanical world

In line with the international best-seller Maps: Exploring the World, this book pays tribute to the beauty of plants and flowers and their extraordinary diversity with never-before-seen photographs, images obtained through cutting-edge techniques, drawings, watercolors and etchings. Carefully compiled by international specialists, this selection of botanical images is organized to highlight contrasts and similarities; it includes works by renowned artists, photographers, scientists and botanical illustrators. - The first book to present botanical art through all pictorial techniques, with images from all eras and all civilizations. - Perfect introduction to the subject, this book looks at plants with a new eye and provides keys to understanding their role in our history and in our culture. This selection of images includes the iconic works of many artists and photographers, including Charles¬Darwin, Irving¬Penn Georgia¬O'Keefe, Henry¬Fox-Talbot, Margaret¬Mee, Leonardo¬de¬Vinci, Nobuyoshi¬Araki, William ¬Morris and Pierre-Joseph¬Redouté. - In addition to large format images, accessible texts and a wealth of information, the book also offers a glossary, a timeline, biographies and an introduction to plant taxonomy. - A visual panorama that spans thousands of years, from stone carvings to state-of-the-art scanner images and medieval manuscripts. - Articles selected and reviewed by a panel of botanists, horticulturists, art historians and curators from around the world