书名：Water Lilies

作者：Caroline Holmes

ISBN：9781870673839

出版社：ACC Art Books 

出版日期：2015.10.28

尺寸：24.54 x 2.39 x 30.84 cm

装帧：精装

页码：208

作者简介：

Caroline Holmes是一名花园历史学家、顾问、设计师、讲师、作家和广播员。她是《吉弗尼的莫奈》、《ISBN 9781870673747》、《欧洲的愚蠢》、《ISBN 9781870673563》和《印象派及其花园》、《ISBN 9781851496532》的作者，这些书均由花园艺术出版社和古董收藏家俱乐部出版。

内容简介：

这本书一丝不苟地记录了我们与最美丽、最具异国情调的植物——睡莲——的持久爱情。它全面而详细地描述了他们进入欧洲文化的过程，主要是通过约瑟夫·鲍里·拉图尔-马利亚克（Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac，1830-1911 年）的热情和奉献精神，他在睡莲的传播、栽培和商业化领域的毕生工作激励了一代园艺家、艺术家和诗人创造了深深植根于我们今天文化中的文字和图像。

编辑推荐：

"Review

[Water Lilies] is a must have book for those seeking garden history from the late 19th and early 20th century, an understanding of Monet's water lilies, and/or the methods of growing water lilies provided by the experts at the Latour-Marliac Nursery. (Joyce E. Brobst, Past President, The Herb Society of America)

About the Author

Caroline Holmes is a garden historian, consultant, designer, lecturer, writer and broadcaster. She is the author of Monet at Giverny, ISBN 9781870673747, Follies of Europe, ISBN 9781870673563 and Impressionists and Their Gardens, ISBN 9781851496532, all published by Garden Art Press and Antique Collectors' Club."

内容推荐：

"Water lilies are inextricably linked to the ancient cultures of Greece and Rome, Egypt and the Far East, where they were highly valued, just as precious metals or gemstones, their properties were thought to be medicinal, spiritual and purely aesthetic; they have been represented in architecture, printed textiles, religious paintings and illustrations, cited in mythology, folklore, mysticism and the creative imagination.

This volume meticulously records our enduring love affair with the most beautiful and exotic of plants, the water lily. It is a comprehensive and detailed account of their introduction into European culture, largely through the passion and devotion of one man, Joseph Bory Latour-Marliac (1830-1911), whose lifelong work in the field of propagation, cultivation and commercialization of water lilies inspired a generation of horticulturists, artists and poets to create the words and images that are deeply embedded in our culture today.

Claude Monet, for example, used lilies from Latour-Marliac's nursery to create his garden in Giverny. The work Latour-Marliac did gave rise to development of specialist lily nurseries and growers across Europe and North America; in fact, Latour-Marliac's nursery still exists today, owned by Robert Sheldon, an American who shared Latour-Marliac's passion for water lilies and water gardening and has been the force behind the nursery's continued success today."