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Blue Violet by Cig Harvey is an evocative exploration of the natural world through a rich blend of personal photographs, drawings, and writings. This unique book serves as an art book, botanical guide, historical encyclopedia, and poetry collection rolled into one. It meditates on the changing seasons, the abundance of our senses, and the magic found in everyday life. Focusing on plants and flowers, it intertwines human emotion and sensory experience with vibrant visual and textual elements, encouraging readers to engage deeply with memory and feelings.
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Ideal for readers interested in arts and culture, nature enthusiasts, and anyone who appreciates contemplative, sensory-rich visual and literary experiences. It suits those seeking a meditative and aesthetically beautiful exploration of the natural world.

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A book of deeply personal and lush photographs, drawings, and writing, Blue Violet is Cig Harvey's celebration of the natural world and the senses

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A book of deeply personal and lush photographs, drawings, and writing, Blue Violet is Cig Harvey's celebration of the natural world and the senses.

Blue Violet is a vibrant meditation on the procession of seasons, sensory abundance, and the magic in everyday life. Part art book, botanical guide, historical encyclopedia, and poetry collection, Blue Violet is a compendium of beauty, colour, and the senses. Plants, flowers, and our experience of the natural world are the threads that tie this unique book together.

Exploring the five senses, Blue Violet takes the reader on a personal journey through nature and the range of human emotions. As with her previous three titles—You Look At Me Like An Emergency, Gardening at Night, and You an Orchestra You a Bomb—this book invites the reader to pause, laugh, cry, create, and become more aware of the natural world.

Images and text in a variety of forms (prose poetry, recipes, lists, research pieces, diagrams) focus on immediate experience to understand the vibrancy of the senses on memory and feelings.

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New York Times Book Review calls it ‘[a] new and noteworthy visual book.’ The Financial Times praises it as ‘a glorious, sensual, poignant collection of botanical photographs, drawings and writings.’ Aesthetica highlights a ‘pure sense of pleasure’ from Harvey’s mindful and transcendent work, while Lenscratch describes it as ‘an immersive experience of colour, beauty, emotion and text.’ GUP Magazine notes its personal contemplation on nature and diverse forms of prose. Romper remarks on its unique, immersive quality and striking presence as coffee table decor.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781580935760

Publisher: Monacelli Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 May 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Monacelli Press

Illustration: 150 Illustrations

Contributors:

  • Afterword by Jacoba Urist

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 249.0mm

Height: 295.0mm

Weight: 1780g

Pages: 208

About the Author

Cig Harveyis an artist who uses images and language to explore sensory experience and elevate the everyday. Rich in implied narrative, deeply rooted in the natural world, her work is devoted to the topic of what it is to feel.Her work has been reviewed and featured in TheNew York Times, BBC,Vogue, TheWall Street Journal, Vice, TheSunday Times, TheIndependent,Marie Claire Italia, andNew York.She is the author of three previous monographs,You Look At Me Like An Emergency,Gardening at Night, andYou an Orchestra You a Bomb. In 2017, Cig was awarded the prestigious Excellence in Teaching Award fromCENTER, an international organization that honors, supports, and provides opportunities for gifted and committed photographers.In 2018, she was named the Prix Virginia Laureate, an international photography awardbased in Paris and in 2019, a mid-career retrospective of her work appeared at the Ogunquit Museum of Art. Jacoba Urist is a journalist living in New York. She writes regularly about art and architecture for The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, Galerie and The New York Times, among other publications. She has covered the art market in New York and Los Angeles for The Art Newspaper, and is a contributing editor for Cultured.

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