Paper Garden : An Artist Begins Her Life's Work at 72

Name: Paper Garden
Brand: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
SKU: 9781608196975
Price: 2800 KES
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ISBN: 9781608196975

by Molly Peacock

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 1608196976

ISBN-13 9781608196975

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Imprint Bloomsbury Press

Country of Manufacture US

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 11th, 2016

Print length 416 Pages

Weight 628 grams

Dimensions 12.80 x 20.30 x 3.30 cms

Product Classification: 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799 History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800 Other graphic or visual art forms Collage & photomontage History of art Individual artists, art monographs Biography: arts & entertainment Biography: arts and entertainment

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Peacock's exploration of the life of eighteenth century botanist, Mary Delany, is "[a] graceful meditation on botany, nature, life and age" (NYTBR).

In 1772, upon the death of her second husband, Mary Delany arose from her grief, picked up a pair of scissors, and, at the age of seventy-two, created a new art form: mixed-media collage. Over the next decade, Mrs. Delany produced an astonishing 985 botanically correct, breathtaking cut-paper flowers, now housed in the British Museum and referred to as the Flora Delanica. As she tracks the extraordinary life of Delany-friend of George Frideric Handel and Jonathan Swift-internationally acclaimed poet Molly Peacock weaves in delicate parallels in her own life and, in doing so, creates a profound and beautiful examination of the nature of creativity and art. This gorgeously designed book, featuring thirty-five full-color illustrations, is to be devoured as voraciously as one of the court dinners it describes.

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