Everlasting Flowers between the Pages

Everlasting Flowers between the PagesIn seventeenth century Europe, florilegia were lavishly produced picture books that featured hand drawn or printed illustrations of a wide variety of flowers. Many of the plants depicted in florilegia stemmed from the Americas and Asia and were much desired for cultivation and study in European gardens. By approaching florilegia as material objects, this colourfully illustrated volume offers new insights into how florilegia mirrored different forms of

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Focusing on the iconic composition of the Seven Worthies of the Bamboo Grove and Rong Qiqi

or the utopian ideals of the Jewish Palestine Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair

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often traced to late Victorian constructions of “invert” and “homosexual

one of the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition

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as well as letters and notebook entries

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