{"product_id":"botanical-observing-beauty","title":"Botanical: Observing Beauty","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis handsome volume invites readers on an intimate stroll through centuries of jewelry, botany, drawing, prints, video-game imagery and scientific illustrations, offering a primer on the beauty and ingenuity of nature as reflected in art. Five contributions punctuate the visually structured journey, including a previously unpublished leporello by the late artist Etel Adnan that pulls out into a six-page gatefold. Indeed, this book-as-object is a masterpiece in and of itself, featuring a cover infused with fluorescent and silver inks and titled with a serigraph, in addition to eight pages of sumptuous endpapers printed in deep forest green.\u003cbr\u003eA coterie of international thinkers guide \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBotanical\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e's ambitious scope and aim: Emanuele Coccia, Italian philosopher and author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2018); Estelle Zhong Mengual, French art historian; Filipa Ramos, Portuguese curator and author of the upcoming book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Artist as Ecologist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2023). Through their rigorous and engaging essays, they unravel the mysterious inner workings of nature and celebrate the visionary mimetic art born from culture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"JBE Books\/Chaumet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47639790485793,"sku":"9782365680608","price":105.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/9650\/6913\/files\/9782365680608.jpg?v=1714487930","url":"https:\/\/shop.terrain.earth\/products\/botanical-observing-beauty","provider":"TERRAIN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}