Gnomes

by Vivian Russell

Award-winning photographer and author Vivian Russell presents an intimate portrait of these impish garden dwellers, photographing and writing about 10 gardens in which gnomes are to be found. This book celebrates the various ways people have used gnomes in their gardens, creating Lilliputian worlds of great charm and originality.

All societies produce some type of kitsch, and the garden gnome may be England's contribution to the form. In Vivian Russell's cheeky book, they are made out of stone, ceramic, and plastic. They smoke, they wink, they throw picnics. You have no idea how versatile they can be. A hoot.

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