Peter Parker

Was there some Freudian symbolism in Lucian’s botanical paintings?

Giovanni Aloi searches for meaning in pictures of plants well past their best, and the pains Freud took to detail every dead leaf

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  • Lucian Freud: Herbarium

    Giovanni Aloi

    Prestel, pp. 176, £39

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