Another Language of Flowers, Paintings
first edition Hardcover
1998 · New York
by Tanning, Dorothea
New York: George Braziller, 1998. First. Hardcover. VG, but ex-art museum library with just a spine label on dj, bookplate, and pencil notation behind title page. O.w. near fine.. Gray cloth boards, blue/green pictorial DJ. Unpaginated. 12 color plates of paintings, 12 b/w plates of drawings, preliminary sketches for each painting. In English. From the dj: "12 imaginary blooms on twelve canvases -- one for each month, or for each hour of the day of night. To speak for them here, twelve contemporary poets have chosen a flower and given it its voice, creating, in these pages, a dazzling collaboration that has resulted in a new "language of flowers. (Inventory #: 130803)