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Afterlife Of Flowers
written by Jane Feldman Gross
Studio : Running Press
by Running Press
Publisher : Running Press
Released : 1999-10-25
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9780762405701
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 10 reviews)
List Price : $24.95
Our Price : $33.86
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Product Description |
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This breathtaking and evocative gift book exposes the fragile beauty of pressed, dried flowers, with individual blooms enlarged through a unique art technique that provides a new perspective on flowers and nature. From daffodils to flowering dogwoods, these incredible shapes and exquisite colors show the beauty of their afterlives. All 80 images are accompanied by lyrical captions inspired by the author's moment of discovery. Also includes a glossary identifying each blossom by picture. |
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DON'T BUY THIS BOOK |
On Martha Stewart's show Feldman Gross talks about how she shows you how she to disect flower in some Japanese way to be able to press them better. She promises many tips on how to press flowers. In fact there isn't tip one in this book. So if you want an expensive book to lie on your coffe table, you might want this. But that's all it is good for. NO TIPS on pressing flowers in this rip off.
Book Trader Cafe that I bought it through is a good place. The book it's self was in great shape. It's Gross that mislead what it was about. |
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The Afterlife of Flowers |
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Good reference material and some philosophy about nature. Beautiful photographs show what some commonly found flowers look like when pressed. This book is includes enlarged photos, comments, and a chart with smaller photos showing each flower's common name, width and it's location in the book. 96 pages, hardcover. |
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Simply Superb! |
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This isn't a how-to book, but the gorgeous photos do serve as a valuable guide to what some commonly found flowers will look like when pressed. The book is comprised of enlarged photos and comments, ending with an id chart of smaller photos along with each flower's common name, actual width, and the page it was featured on. If you like the look of pressed flowers, you might want to check out Laura Martin's Art and Craft of Pounding Flowers. Pounding an object's pigment onto fabric and paper creates beautiful and uniquely pressed flower like images. Very nice. |
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Flower Nirvana |
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Janie Feldman Gross takes the art of flower pressing to new dimensions. Each specimen is a work of art unto itself - the colors, textures, delicately graceful lines - coupled with Janie's poetic observations, all add up to a book that is both breathtakingly beautiful and inspiring. |
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Revealing Hidden Beauty in Flowers |
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For most, the term "pressed flowers" conjures the shriveled and crumbling remains of faded prom corsages. Nothing could be more strikingly different from the pressed flora you'll encounter in THE AFTERLIFE OF FLOWERS. Creator Janie Feldman Gross invites us to a world where flowers reveal their remarkable and astonishing beauty...long after bloom. She guides us through a breathtaking collection of specimens -- most grown in her own garden -- each transformed by weight and time. Bringing her artist's eye to the task, Gross combines spectacular photographic images with her own spare and carefully placed commentary. The result is a visual ballet -- flowers partnered by prose. This is a book to be enjoyed for it uniqueness, its visual aesthetic and its underlying message; if we are patient and take the time to observe the world around us, there is unexpected beauty therein. |
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