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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Drawing & drawings
This is a fully revised and updated new version of a popular RSPB
handbook to the art and joy of drawing birds. John Busby
beautifully conveys his own remarkable ability to capture the grace
and motion of living birds, illustrating his ideas and suggestions
with many examples of his own work. He also uses illustrations from
over 45 other talented bird artists to demonstrate a variety of
principles and techniques. The text covers a wealth of topics,
including choice of media, sketching from life, composition and
different ways of interpreting the subject matter. This is a
beautiful and inspiring book which will appeal to aspiring artists
and anyone who has ever been entranced by the beauty of birds.
Fieldworkers’ notebooks are full of sensations and observations
in which the subjectivity of the ethnographer seeps through. Not
really science. Much closer to life. Yet in classical anthropology
they are invisible to the reader. In this book the focus is
reversed, turning Anthropology Inside Out as it explores the
vibrant backstage life of field notes. What happens when we put
them centre stage? Aimed at both curious novice and experienced
practitioner, the chapters read as a catalogue of experimental
practices teetering on the edge of the tradition: intuitively
observational drawings; notes pervaded with paranoia; collective
notetaking;crisis-ridden personal confessions; layers of notes in
photographs and archives; old flip-flops that trigger memories in
mind and body. This exploration of what field notes are, can do and
could be, concludes with a constellation of shimmering notes on
notes from Michael Taussig, a meta-commentary on anthropologists’
fetishistic relationship with the most personal of professional
tools.
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