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Article: War, flowers, and visual culture: the First World War collection of the Australian War Memorial.
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- Journal of the Australian War Memorial
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- February 1, 2007
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Over centuries and across cultures, war and flowers share an intimate history. In Roman mythology Flora, the goddess of fertility, gave life to Mars, the god of war. In fifteenth-century England, during the "Wars of the Roses", the House of Lancaster wore a red rose and the House of York, a white. In sixteenth-century Turkey, women prayed for the safe return of men from war with white tulips. [1] In the 1960s American protesters placed flowers in gun barrels. The connection between flowers and war might seem unexpected, incongruous, and even ironic: one conventionally represents beauty and life; the other ugliness and death. Nevertheless, history has shown the flower has a ...
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