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The Graphic Flower: Ray Flowers and Roses in American Art and Culture

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The Graphic Flower: Ray Flowers and Roses in American Art and Culture - Richman, Irwin, and Emery, Michael B
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America's favorite flora are the homey ray flowers, a tribe featuring daisies, sunflowers, chrysanthemums, dahlias, coneflowers, and black-eyed Susans, combined with the elegant, multifaceted rose. Children pick ray flowers for their prepubescent crush or for their mom; when they get older, they graduate to the rose, a more sophisticated choice. Both high culture and pop culture embrace floral imagery; think of Annie Liebovitz's famous nude photograph of Bette Midler blanketed in long-stemmed American Beauties on the cover ...

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The Graphic Flower: Ray Flowers and Roses in American Art and Culture 2019, Schiffer Publishing

ISBN-13: 9780764357268

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