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Title: Flora Symbolica: Flowers in Pre-Raphaelite Art by Debra N. Mancoff ISBN: 3-7913-2851-4 Publisher: Prestel USA Pub. Date: May, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: A throw-away book
Comment: I have several books by Mancoff and get the feeling she just went through the motions on this one. Ostensibly about floral symbolism, the book actually contains very little on the subject. It's more of a collection of pretty pictures accompanied by some juicy gossip about the affairs of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne Jones, etc. Often a painting will clearly show many flowers--for example Charles Allston Collins' "Convent Thoughts" has eleven--but the desciption will cover only a few. In other cases, the entry will be 95% about the personal life of the artist with 1 or 2 sentences about flowers tacked on at the end. Mancoff does assemble some paintings that are seldom reproduced, and it is fun to look at more popular paintings with new eyes. I would have liked it better, however, if she had explored how this symbolic language developed, how familiar people were with this language, and had included even more pop culture references to floral symbolism than she does.
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Title: Flower Power : The Meaning of Flowers in Art, 1500-2000 by Christopher Garibaldi, Andrew Moor, Anna Pavord ISBN: 0856675733 Publisher: Philip Wilson Pub Ltd Pub. Date: 14 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $27.50 |
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Title: Pre-Raphaelites at Home by Pamela Todd ISBN: 0823042855 Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns Pub. Date: October, 2001 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: Pre-Raphaelite Art in the Victoria and Albert Museum by Suzanne Fagence Cooper ISBN: 0810966115 Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum Pub. Date: 01 November, 2003 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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Title: Jane Morris: The Pre-Raphaelite Model of Beauty by Debra N. Mancoff ISBN: 0764913379 Publisher: Pomegranate Pub. Date: August, 2000 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
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Title: Pre-Raphaelite and Other Masters From the Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection by Robyn Et Al Asleson ISBN: 1903973392 Publisher: Royal Academy of Arts Pub. Date: 01 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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