Encyclopedia of flowers / flower works by Makoto Azuma ; photographed by Shunsuke Shiinoki ; edited by Kyoko Wada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Azuma, Makoto, 1976- author.

Contributor:

Shiinoki, Shunsuke, 1976- photographer.

Wada, Kyōko, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flowers--Encyclopedias.

Flowers.

Flowers in art--Pictorial works.

Flowers in art.

Plants in art.

Installations (Art).

installations (visual works).

Genre:

Illustrated works

Encyclopedias

Physical Description:

5 volumes : many photographs (chiefly color) ; 25-30 cm

Place of Publication:

Baden : Lars Müller ; 2012

Japan : Seigensha Art Publishing ; 2015-

Summary:

Flowers have been a universal cultural object for millennia. They are an important aesthetic element in everyday life worldwide, and have played a highly symbolic role in art throughout the ages. Over the past few years, Makoto Azuma has created a furor in the art world with his floral installations, in which he creates unusual new shapes from plants and flowers and their component parts. Inspired by the Japanese tradition of ikebana - the art of flower arranging - Azuma creates novel and previously unseen aesthetics by bringing together unusual plants that wouldn't usually meet in nature-some of them exotic - in extraordinary arrangements. Shunsuke Shiinoki, who opened the "haute-couture" florists Jardin des Fleurs in Tokyo in 2002 in association with Makoto Azuma, captured these exceptional floral installations in extraordinary photographs.

"The Encyclopedia of Flowers is a series of 'definitive stationary observations' in which Makoto Azuma focuses on the market-related changes in the form of species becoming extinct and new ones appearing, as his mission and life work. The flowers featured here are described using their common formal Latin scientific names in a list and index." --vol. 3 book jacket

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: all, entirety, complete, integrated / Makoro Azuma

Any sense of seasons, the particularity of a climate, or the special quality of a breed no longer possesses a fixed definition. / Makoro Azuma

Chaos. / Makoro Azuma

A microcosm of the world we live in. / Makoro Azuma

group, crowd, followers, assembly / Makoro Azuma

A species that has traveled across the ocean. / Makoro Azuma

A rare variety that grows wild in a virgin forest. / Makoro Azuma

A variety that is cultivated by man. / Makoro Azuma

Every life comes in shoals. / Makoro Azuma

symbiosis, compatible / Makoro Azuma

All varieties on earth are connected, equivalent, and are necessary. / Makoro Azuma

They affect one another, commingle, and exist together in a symbiotic relationship. / Makoro Azuma

cross, mix, crossbreed / Makoro Azuma

Note continued: One variety is a result of natural crossbreeding, while another is the product of artificial crossbreeding for the purpose of beauty, and another is a product of changes in the environment that yield a new, natural form. / Makoro Azuma

existence, look, posture / Makoro Azuma

With time held in abeyance, a portrait that captures the moment of a life's blossom in full glory, gradually withering and changing. / Makoro Azuma

By Image / Makoro Azuma

By Name / Makoro Azuma.

ISBN:

9783037783139 (v.1)

3037783133 (v.1)

9784861524769 (v.2)

4861524768 (v.2)

9784861525711 (v.3)

4861525713 (v.3)

9784861527388 (v.4)

4861527384 (v.4)

9784861528774 (v. 5)

4861528771 (v. 5)

OCLC:

809125907