| Flowers for Lisa: A Delirium of Photographic Invention (Limited Edition) Contributor(s): Morell, Abelardo (Author), Weschler, Lawrence (Contribution by) |
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ISBN: 1419735861 ISBN-13: 9781419735868 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams OUR PRICE: $180.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | Individual Artists - Monographs - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Plants & Animals - Photography | Individual Photographers - Monographs |
| LCCN: 2018945584 |
| Physical Information: 2.3" H x 11.8" W x 17.2" (5.00 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This deluxe slipcase edition is limited to five hundred copies, signed and numbered by the artist. The book was printed on GardaPat Kiara paper at Conti Tipocolor S.p.A. in Florence, Italy, and bound in Brillianta cloth. Best known for his surreal camera obscura pictures and luminous black-and-white photographs of books, photographer Abelardo Morell now turns his transformative lens to one of the most common of artistic subjects, the flower. The concept for Flowers for Lisa emerged when Morell gave his wife, Lisa, a photograph of flowers on her birthday. "Flowers are part of a long tradition of still life in art," writes Morell. "Precisely because flowers are such a conventional subject, I felt a strong desire to describe them in new, inventive ways." With nods to the work of Jan Brueghel, Édouard Manet, Georgia O'Keeffe, René Magritte, and others, Morell does just that; the images are as innovative as they are arresting. |
Contributor Bio(s): Weschler, Lawrence: - LA-born Lawrence Weschler is the award-winning author of Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (about Robert Irwin), True to Life (about David Hockney), Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonders, and Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences, among many others. He lives in New York City. |