中文简介：

几个世纪以来，花一直是艺术中的一个流行主题。自巴洛克时代以来，作为自然美和尘世死亡的缩影，花卉在20世纪和21世纪仍然是艺术家们迷恋的对象，既是爱情和生命的象征，也是衰败和毁灭的象征。本卷收录了120多件作品，包括绘画、摄影、录像和装置等各种媒介。本书展示了花卉的意义和主题的变化，从对颜色和形式的研究到社会政治和性别问题，再到对生存、环境和新技术的反思。这本图文并茂的书还提供了一个艺术史的回顾，以及关于我们与花打交道的政治层面和日常文化的文章。

英文简介：

Flowers have been a popular motif in art for centuries. As the epitome of natural beauty and earthly mortality since the Baroque era, flowers remain an object of fascination for artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, serving as a symbol for love and life as well as for decay and destruction. This volume features more than one hundred and twenty works in a variety of media, including painting, photography, video, and installation. The book shows the changes in meaning and the topicality of flowers from the study of color and form via sociopolitical and gender-specific questions to reflections on existence, the environment, and new technologies. This lavishly illustrated book also offers an art-historical review and essays on the political dimensions and everyday culture of our dealings with flowers.