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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes > General
Artworks, manuscripts, printed works and wildlife sound recordings
come together in this major compendium of the greatest and
strangest representations of animals on record. Eighty detailed
case studies highlight celebrated works, including John James
Audubon's The Birds of America, Matthew Paris's Liber
additamentorum, Maria Sibylla Merian's Metamorphosis (1705), Mark
Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama
Islands, as well as letters from Charles Darwin, the Baburnama,
translated by Mirza 'Abd al-Rahim Khan, Japanese printed works by
Hirase Yoichiro (1914-1915), Arabic hippiatric texts and the work
of contemporary artists including Levon Biss and Jethro Buck. Rich,
newly photographed, illustrations bring these works to life, while
interactive QR technology will allow readers to listen to
recordings of the sound exhibits as they read. Expertly edited,
this powerful collection of objects prompt us to consider the
increasing importance of technology and data to our understanding
of humanity's impact on the world's faunal inhabitants.
For Kurt Jackson (b.1961), 'Painting the sea could become an
obsession, an entire oeuvre in its own right, an endless life
absorbing task.' And, as this book attests, Jackson's dedication to
capturing its constant shape shifting - stillness to thundering
force, shallows to mysterious depths - have brought forth paintings
that communicate the sea's ebb and flow, its magic and elusiveness.
Kurt Jackson's Sea captures the beauty of the artist's constantly
evolving relationship with one of nature's most challenging
subjects. Two hundred colour images complement Jackson's
reflections on his interactions with inspirational coastal
landscapes - largely experienced in his native Cornwall, but
stretching way beyond the county too.
This volume examines the image-based methods of interpretation that
pictorial and literary landscapists employed between 1500 and 1700.
The seventeen essays ask how landscape, construed as the
description of place in image and/or text, more than merely
inviting close viewing, was often seen to call for interpretation
or, better, for the application of a method or principle of
interpretation. Contributors: Boudewijn Bakker, William M. Barton,
Stijn Bussels, Reindert Falkenburg, Margaret Goehring, Andrew Hui,
Sarah McPhee, Luke Morgan, Shelley Perlove, Kathleen P. Long, Lukas
Reddemann, Denis Ribouillault, Paul J. Smith, Troy Tower, and
Michel Weemans.
No one captures the graces and idiosyncrasies of cats quite like
the painters, printmakers, and haiku masters of Japan. From the Edo
to the Showa period, many artists turned their gaze toward an
unlikely subject: their small feline companions. Closely observed
portraits in words and ink elevate the everyday adventures of cats:
taking a nap on a Buddha statue's lap, daintily eating a rice ball,
courting the neighbor's cat. This curated collection of poems,
prints, and paintings will leave you inspired to cultivate the
serenity and wonder embodied by these creators - and by the cats
themselves. Presented as a sweet, jacketed paperback with
thoughtful design touches, this volume includes each poem in both
English and Japanese.
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