{"id":7071591006297,"title":"Flowers for Lisa — Morell '71, H '97","handle":"flowers-for-lisa-morell-71-h-97","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Abelardo Morell, Class of 1971\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest known for his surreal camera obscura pictures and luminous black-and-white photographs of books, photographer Abelardo Morell now turns his transformative lens to one of the most common of artistic subjects, the flower. The concept for \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFlowers for Lisa\u003c\/em\u003e emerged when Morell gave his wife, Lisa, a photograph of flowers on her birthday. “Flowers are part of a long tradition of still life in art,” writes Morell. “Precisely because flowers are such a conventional subject, I felt a strong desire to describe them in new, inventive ways.” With nods to the work of Jan Brueghel, Édouard Manet, Georgia O’Keeffe, René Magritte, and others, Morell does just that; the images are as innovative as they are arresting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e","published_at":"2022-05-18T15:11:45-04:00","created_at":"2022-05-18T15:11:44-04:00","vendor":"The Bowdoin Store","type":"Book","tags":["Art","Bowdoin Alumni"],"price":6000,"price_min":6000,"price_max":6000,"available":true,"price_varies":false,"compare_at_price":6000,"compare_at_price_min":6000,"compare_at_price_max":6000,"compare_at_price_varies":false,"variants":[{"id":39987756367961,"title":"Default Title","option1":"Default Title","option2":null,"option3":null,"sku":"WBA415-Morell","requires_shipping":true,"taxable":true,"featured_image":null,"available":true,"name":"Flowers for Lisa — Morell '71, H '97","public_title":null,"options":["Default Title"],"price":6000,"weight":0,"compare_at_price":6000,"inventory_quantity":3,"inventory_management":"shopify","inventory_policy":"deny","barcode":"9781419732331","requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_allocations":[]}],"images":["\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba415-morell-flowers.jpg?v=1652901106"],"featured_image":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba415-morell-flowers.jpg?v=1652901106","options":["Title"],"media":[{"alt":"Flowers for Lisa by Abelardo Morell","id":21905403019353,"position":1,"preview_image":{"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"width":550,"src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba415-morell-flowers.jpg?v=1652901106"},"aspect_ratio":1.0,"height":550,"media_type":"image","src":"\/\/store.bowdoin.edu\/cdn\/shop\/products\/wba415-morell-flowers.jpg?v=1652901106","width":550}],"requires_selling_plan":false,"selling_plan_groups":[],"content":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBy Abelardo Morell, Class of 1971\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBest known for his surreal camera obscura pictures and luminous black-and-white photographs of books, photographer Abelardo Morell now turns his transformative lens to one of the most common of artistic subjects, the flower. The concept for \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFlowers for Lisa\u003c\/em\u003e emerged when Morell gave his wife, Lisa, a photograph of flowers on her birthday. “Flowers are part of a long tradition of still life in art,” writes Morell. “Precisely because flowers are such a conventional subject, I felt a strong desire to describe them in new, inventive ways.” With nods to the work of Jan Brueghel, Édouard Manet, Georgia O’Keeffe, René Magritte, and others, Morell does just that; the images are as innovative as they are arresting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-From the publisher\u003c\/p\u003e"}