Bouquets of Art: A Flower Dictionary from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Bouquets of Art: A Flower Dictionary from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Bouquets of Art: A Flower Dictionary from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

Bouquets of Art: A Flower Dictionary from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco

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Overview

Lauren Palmor’s Bouquets of Art isa gorgeous compendium that illuminates the rich history of floriography through the lens of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s expansive collection.

This volume draws upon the rich history of the language of flowers in order to offer a new perspective through which to explore the permanent collection of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Featuring a sampling of floral imagery selected from across cultures, periods, and media, this guide builds on the methods of floriography as a means for navigating how the collection’s expansive array of objects intersects with the rich histories of floral symbolism and communication.

Looking across the Fine Arts Museums’ holdings of American art, works on paper, costume and textile arts, European painting, and European decorative arts and sculpture, this selection of 50 floral objects presents the collection through a new lens, with accompanying texts that explore a rich variety of source material, including poetry, etymology, folklore, botany, popular music, biblical verse, mythology, histories of exploration and colonization, and systems of belief. A branch of azaleas recalls lines of poetry from the oldest extant collection of Japanese verse; the deep purple irises of a stained-glass window suggest the myth of Iris, the Greek goddess who carried messages of love from heaven to Earth; and a lemon blossom atop a piece of French soft-paste porcelain evokes the lyrics of a 1960s pop song. These connections reinforce an essential aspect of art appreciation: If approached with a keen eye, an open heart, and a curious mind, any artwork can be placed at the center of its own constellation of associations.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781951836832
Publisher: Cameron Books
Publication date: 06/28/2022
Pages: 144
Sales rank: 777,306
Product dimensions: 8.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Lauren Palmor is the assistant curator of American art at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. She received a master of arts with merit in the history of art from the Courtauld Institute of Art (2009) and a PhD in art history from the University of Washington (2016), where her dissertation research addressed questions of ageism in the study of 19th-century genre painting. An advocate for interpretive experimentation, she is dedicated to designing new ways of sharing and experiencing American art with museum audiences.
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