"Flowers are a symbol for love and life as well as for decay and destruction. About 180 works in a variety of media, including painting, photography, video and installation, show the changes in meaning and the topicality of the subject: from the study of colour and form via socio-political and gender-specific questions to reflections on existence, the environment and new technologies." -- Back cover.
Blumen in der Kunst des 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts
Flowers in the art of the 20th and 21st centuries
Flowers! in the art of the 20th and 21st centuries
Die Blume in der Kunst, zwischen Tradition and modernem Bildkonzept / Regina Selter -- Blumen! Bilder! / Barbara Welzel -- Blumen, drinnen und draussen / Kurt Wettengl -- »Die verblichene Kaiserin Elisabeth schätzte es nicht minder.« Blumen als Elemente politischer Symbolik / Stefan Mühlhofer -- Ich widerspreche, also bin ich. Blumensymbolik in der feministischen Kunst / Stefanie Weisshorn-Ponert -- »There is no such thing as nature anymore. It's all culture now.« Blumen und ihre Umwelt in der zeitgenössischen Kunst / Stefanie Weisshorn-Ponert -- Durch die Kunst, durch die Blume / Ronja von Rönne.
The flowers in art: Between tradition and a modern picture concept / Regina Selter -- Flowers! Images! / Barbara Welzel -- Flowers: Inside and out / Kurt Wettengl -- 'The deceased empress Elisabeth valued it no less': Flowers as elements of political symbolism / Stefan Mühlhofer -- I dissent, therefore I am: Flower symbolism in feminist art / Stefanie Weisshorn-Ponert -- 'There is no such thing as nature anymore, it's all culture now': Flowers and their habitat in contemporary art / Stefanie Weisshorn-Ponert -- Through art, through flowers / Ronja von Rönne.