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The Art of the Bird: The History of Ornithological Art Through Forty Artists

The Art of the Bird: The History of Ornithological Art Through Forty Artists - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Roger J. LedererPublish date:2019-09-25Pages:224
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226675053ISBN-10:022667505XUPC:9780226675053Book Category:Nature, Science, ArtBook Subcategory:Animals, Life Sciences, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Birds, Zoology, Plants & AnimalsSize:11.30 x 9.80 x 0.90 inchesWeight:3.1526Product ID:SC4G3WVQVH
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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226675053ISBN-10:022667505XUPC:9780226675053Book Category:Nature, Science, ArtBook Subcategory:Animals, Life Sciences, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Birds, Zoology, Plants & AnimalsSize:11.30 x 9.80 x 0.90 inchesWeight:3.1526Product ID:SC4G3WVQVH
Roger J. Lederer is professor emeritus of biological sciences at California State University, Chico, where he taught courses on ornithology and ecology. He is the author of Beaks, Bones, and Bird Songs: How the Struggle for Survival Has Shaped Birds and Their Behavior; coauthor of Latin for Bird Lovers; and creator of Ornithology.com.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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