The Art of the Bird: The History of Ornithological Art Through Forty Artists
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Book Overview The human history of depicting birds dates to as many as 40,000 years ago, when Paleolithic artists took to cave walls to capture winged ...
The human history of depicting birds dates to as many as 40,000 years ago, when Paleolithic artists took to cave walls to capture winged and other beasts. But the art form has reached its peak in the last four hundred years. In The Art of the Bird, devout birder and ornithologist Roger J. Lederer celebrates this heyday of avian illustration in forty artists' profiles, beginning with the work of Flemish painter Frans Snyders in the early 1600s and continuing through to contemporary artists like Elizabeth Butterworth, famed for her portraits of macaws. Stretching its wings across time, taxa, geography, and artistic style--from the celebrated realism of American conservation icon John James Audubon, to Elizabeth Gould's nineteenth-century renderings of museum specimens from the Himalayas, to Swedish artist and ornithologist Lars Jonsson's ethereal watercolors--this book is feathered with art and artists as diverse and beautiful as their subjects. A soaring exploration of our fascination with the avian form, The Art of the Bird is a testament to the ways in which the intense observation inherent in both art and science reveals the mysteries of the natural world.
Book Details Format: Hardcover | Pages: 224 | Language: English | Publisher: UNIV OF CHICAGO PR | ISBN: 022667505X
FormatHardcover
Pages224
LanguageEnglish
ISBN022667505X
EAN9780226675053
PublisherUNIV OF CHICAGO PR
Publication Date1970-01-01
EditionFirst Edition
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeHARD COVER BOOKS
Weight3.15 Pounds
Length11.3 Inches
Width9.8 Inches
Height0.9 Inches
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