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Author: Seth Anawalt Publisher: Tate Publishing ISBN: 1615668195 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 76
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'The lilies blossom o'er the land In aromatic rolling stream Reflecting every golden strand of light Within their silken sheen. The Queen of Sheba journeyed far To gaze upon a glory rare; But Solomon in all his might With lily bright could not compare.' A poem is a picture, a story that plumbs the depths of human perception and experience. A poem is a living entity, emerging from the wellspring of the soul. Defined, it defies definition. A droplet, it glistens in the sun before losing itself in the stream. A reflection of life, it conveys the essence of being. Like the lily, fading, a poem is born anew, speaking peace. While contemporary in style, Lilies in a Stream belongs to the category of Romantic literature. Like the poems in this special edition, the selected prints are strong and classic, rich in archetypal imagery. And, while the poems are not based on the art itself, a meaningful aesthetic relationship is evident throughout. A treasure of verse and art!
Author: Seth Anawalt Publisher: Tate Publishing ISBN: 1615668195 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 76
Book Description
'The lilies blossom o'er the land In aromatic rolling stream Reflecting every golden strand of light Within their silken sheen. The Queen of Sheba journeyed far To gaze upon a glory rare; But Solomon in all his might With lily bright could not compare.' A poem is a picture, a story that plumbs the depths of human perception and experience. A poem is a living entity, emerging from the wellspring of the soul. Defined, it defies definition. A droplet, it glistens in the sun before losing itself in the stream. A reflection of life, it conveys the essence of being. Like the lily, fading, a poem is born anew, speaking peace. While contemporary in style, Lilies in a Stream belongs to the category of Romantic literature. Like the poems in this special edition, the selected prints are strong and classic, rich in archetypal imagery. And, while the poems are not based on the art itself, a meaningful aesthetic relationship is evident throughout. A treasure of verse and art!
Author: Tatiana Holway Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199911169 Category : Gardening Languages : en Pages : 339
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In 1837, while charting the Amazonian country of Guiana for Great Britain, German naturalist Robert Schomburgk discovered an astounding "vegetable wonder"--a huge water lily whose leaves were five or six feet across and whose flowers were dazzlingly white. In England, a horticultural nation with a mania for gardens and flowers, news of the discovery sparked a race to bring a live specimen back, and to bring it to bloom. In this extraordinary plant, named Victoria regia for the newly crowned queen, the flower-obsessed British had found their beau ideal. In The Flower of Empire, Tatiana Holway tells the story of this magnificent lily, revealing how it touched nearly every aspect of Victorian life, art, and culture. Holway's colorful narrative captures the sensation stirred by Victoria regia in England, particularly the intense race among prominent Britons to be the first to coax the flower to bloom. We meet the great botanists of the age, from the legendary Sir Joseph Banks, to Sir William Jackson Hooker, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, to the extravagant flower collector the Duke of Devonshire. Perhaps most important was the Duke's remarkable gardener, Joseph Paxton, who rose from garden boy to knight, and whose design of a series of ever-more astonishing glass-houses--one, the Big Stove, had a footprint the size of Grand Central Station--culminated in his design of the architectural wonder of the age, the Crystal Palace. Fittingly, Paxton based his design on a glass-house he had recently built to house Victoria regia. Indeed, the natural ribbing of the lily's leaf inspired the pattern of girders supporting the massive iron-and-glass building. From alligator-laden jungle ponds to the heights of Victorian society, The Flower of Empire unfolds the marvelous odyssey of this wonder of nature in a revealing work of cultural history.
Author: Ross King Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1408861968 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 416
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Claude Monet's water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century. Yet these entrancing images were created at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness for the artist. The dramatic history behind these paintings is little known; Ross King's Mad Enchantment tells the full story for the first time and, in the process, presents a compelling and original portrait of one of our most popular and cherished artists. By the outbreak of war in 1914, Monet, then in his mid-seventies, was one of the world's most famous and successful painters, with a large house in the country, a fleet of automobiles and a colossal reputation. However, he had virtually given up painting following the death of his wife Alice in 1911 and the onset of blindness a year later. Nonetheless, it was during this period of sorrow, ill health and creative uncertainty that – as the guns roared on the Western Front – he began the most demanding and innovative paintings he had ever attempted. Encouraged by close friends such as Georges Clemenceau, France's dauntless prime minister, Monet would work on these magnificent paintings throughout the war years and then for the rest of his life. So obsessed with his monumental task that the village barber was summoned to clip his hair as he worked beside his pond, he covered hundreds of yards of canvas with shimmering layers of pigment. As his ambitions expanded with his paintings, he began planning what he intended to be his legacy to the world: the 'Musée Claude Monet' in the Orangerie in Paris. Drawing on letters and memoirs and focusing on this remarkable period in the artist's life, Mad Enchantment gives an intimate portrayal of Claude Monet in all his tumultuous complexity, and firmly places his water lily paintings among the greatest achievements in the history of art.
Author: Seth Anawalt
Author: Seth Anawalt
Author: Tatiana Holway
Author: Ross King
Author: George Lawson
Author: George LAWSON (Botanist.)
Author: George Lawson (Ph.D.)
Author: Robert Blachford Mansfield
Author: Anna Botsford Comstock
Author: Robert Blachford Mansfield
Author: Mansfield