{"product_id":"groundwork-by-michele-leggott-9781991072047","title":"Groundwork","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA luscious tribute to an early New Zealand botanical artist, \u003cem\u003eGroundwork\u003c\/em\u003e is part inspired creative endeavour and part determined detective work. This long overdue book brings to light one of New Zealand's most significant botanical artists of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJust as Emily Harris's beautiful paintings occupy a liminal space between scientific botanical illustration and art, so this book occupies a shifting ground between biography and imagineered monograph. The result is often moving and always intriguing. Importantly, it restores to Aotearoa art history a figure who had almost disappeared.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmily Harris has been examined alongside her artist peers Sarah Featon and Georgina Hetley, but until now, neither her distinctive voice nor her almost 200 surviving images have been heard or seen in any quantity outside of archival or online spaces. Her life story is remarkable, and her diaries, letters, poems, and paintings constitute a fascinating legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eGroundwork\u003c\/em\u003e, with its compelling text, they are lovingly brought together for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upstart Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47084562415852,"sku":"9781991072047","price":55.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/25072633482896.jpg?v=1765321688","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/groundwork-by-michele-leggott-9781991072047","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}