Art Botany in British Design Reform, 1835-1865 - Alford, Sarah
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"This book provides an interdisciplinary study of how design and botanical science came together in the 19th century, examining the work of leading botanists, designers and illustrators such as Sarah Drake, John Lindley, Owen Jones and Christopher Dresser. It reveals how design reformers looked to 'art botany', the practice of basing decorative form and ornament on the hidden, natural laws that govern plant growth and structure, as a model for how to create and identify what is new and incorporate it into what was already familiar and meaningful, in order to develop a national design aesthetic and a professional field of practice"--…mehr

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"This book provides an interdisciplinary study of how design and botanical science came together in the 19th century, examining the work of leading botanists, designers and illustrators such as Sarah Drake, John Lindley, Owen Jones and Christopher Dresser. It reveals how design reformers looked to 'art botany', the practice of basing decorative form and ornament on the hidden, natural laws that govern plant growth and structure, as a model for how to create and identify what is new and incorporate it into what was already familiar and meaningful, in order to develop a national design aesthetic and a professional field of practice"--
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Sarah Alford is Assistant Professor of Craft History and Theory at Alberta University of the Arts, Canada, specializing in 19th-century craft and design history. She has presented at the College Art Association conference and the Canadian Craft Biennial, and has had writing published in the Journal of Design History.