Ocean Flowers : Impressions from Nature

An inspiring book of shapes and patterns of ocean plant life. Over 200 color illustrations accompany the scholarly texts. Most illustrations are beautiful full-page plates of ocean flower drawings and photographs from the 1800's. Pages are clean, crisp, and like-new. Boards and dust jacket edges have minor edge and corner wear. Spine has slight lean. Very good book in very good jacket. "A work of stunning beauty, Ocean Flowers explores a little-known moment of exhilarating artistic experimentation. The book focuses on natural-history imagery in the mid-nineteenth century, with particular emphasis on botanical drawings and photograms by the artist Anna Atkins (1799-1871) and her Victorian contemporaries. Besides providing a feast for the eyes, the book illuminates intriguing shifts in the way the natural world was represented. In the mid 1800s, the advent of photography provided new possibilities, generating as much creative fervor as digital media have in recent years. In additio