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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

The Bird - The Great Age of Avian Illustration (Hardcover): Philip Kennedy The Bird - The Great Age of Avian Illustration (Hardcover)
Philip Kennedy
R1,319 R1,103 Discovery Miles 11 030 Save R216 (16%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The Bird explores the fascinating world of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century ornithological illustration. This was a period of scientific, artistic and geographic discovery, when people began to fully appreciate the immense variety of form and colour within the natural world. This book celebrates this beauty through the lavish illustrations produced at that time. Each chapter focuses on a category of birds, from shorebirds to birds of prey. Feature sections on key ornithological artists such as John James Audubon, Elizabeth Gould and Edward Lear demonstrated how technology, travel and ambition shaped these amazing images, and how their work transformed our understanding of the wonderful world of birds.

Nature Notebook: Red Squirrel (Notebook / blank book): Jane Smith Nature Notebook: Red Squirrel (Notebook / blank book)
Jane Smith
R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This notebook features a beautiful cover illustration by acclaimed nature artist Jane Smith. It contains 192 pages of lined paper, head-and-tail bans, a ribbon marker and band to keep it securely fastened.

Plant Quarantine An Approach To Restrict Invasive Alien Species (Hardcover): Suresh G. Borkar Plant Quarantine An Approach To Restrict Invasive Alien Species (Hardcover)
Suresh G. Borkar
R6,668 Discovery Miles 66 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
10 Step Watercolour: Flowers and Plants - Paint 25 Beautifully Detailed Flowers in 10 Easy Steps (Paperback): Eleanor Longhurst 10 Step Watercolour: Flowers and Plants - Paint 25 Beautifully Detailed Flowers in 10 Easy Steps (Paperback)
Eleanor Longhurst
R340 R314 Discovery Miles 3 140 Save R26 (8%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The really easy way to learn how to paint flowers in watercolour! Using a simple ten-step process, learn how to draw a basic outline starting with simple shapes, then add washes of colour and fine details to complete your work. Arranged in three chapters based on skill level, this book features 25 lovely projects, each showing you how to paint a flower in ten steps. There are paint swatches for every plant, showing you the colours you need to mix for each step of the way and the finished painting serves as a reference to guide you. It couldn't be easier! Also included is a useful techniques section at the beginning, and clever painting tips from the author throughout the book. With flora as diverse as a tulip, a magnolia, a bunny ears cactus and a passionflower, there is plenty to choose from and practise with, to develop your skills.

Great Smoky Mountains Wildlife Port. (Hardcover): Lea Great Smoky Mountains Wildlife Port. (Hardcover)
Lea; Photographs by Bill Lea
R784 R717 Discovery Miles 7 170 Save R67 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Photographer Bill Lea?known for his artistic documentation of deer and bear behavior, the various moods of the Great Smoky Mountains, and southern ecosystems?has captured in stunning photographs the essence of Great Smoky Mountains wildlife. From rare red-cheeked salamanders, ruby-throated hummingbirds, and playful otters to graceful whitetails, regal elk, and inquisitive black bears, Great Smoky Mountains Wildlife Portfolio is more than a collection of beautiful wildlife photography; it is an inspired and sensitive tribute to one of the world's most spectacular landscapes and the wide variety of unique creatures that reside there.

A Bunny Named Barnaby - It's a Bun Life (Hardcover): Katja Russell, Nick McGinn A Bunny Named Barnaby - It's a Bun Life (Hardcover)
Katja Russell, Nick McGinn
R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Bamboo - Its Cult and Culture (Hardcover): Katherine M Ball Bamboo - Its Cult and Culture (Hardcover)
Katherine M Ball; Illustrated by Wang Tseng-Tsu
R733 Discovery Miles 7 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Drawings of Peter Lanyon (Hardcover): Margaret Garlake The Drawings of Peter Lanyon (Hardcover)
Margaret Garlake
R3,402 Discovery Miles 34 020 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This title was first published in 2003. Peter Lanyon stood at the forefront of landscape painting in Europe during the late 1950s and early 60s. A prominent St Ives artist, he was associated with Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson and Naum Gabo; his work also has affinities with abstract expressionism. Lanyon's career started just as the study of drawing was being liberated from 19th-century academic constrictions. His many drawings range from records of trips to the Netherlands and Italy to portrait sketches and abstract studies. Lanyon also used drawings extensively in the development of some of his most important paintings. In this study, Margaret Garlake explores Lanyon's theory and practice of drawing; the contribution of drawings to the evocation of place in paintings; his use of models and the metamorphosis of the human body into landscape images, as well as his use of three-dimensional constructions as equivalents to drawing.

British Artists and the Modernist Landscape (Hardcover): Ysanne Holt British Artists and the Modernist Landscape (Hardcover)
Ysanne Holt
R4,028 Discovery Miles 40 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Title first published in 2003. In this detailed study of the landscapes and rural scenes of Britain and France made by artists like George Clausen, Philip Wilson Steer, Augustus John, Laura Knight, J. D. Fergusson and Spencer Gore, Ysanne Holt investigates the imaginary geographies behind the pictures and reconsiders the relationship between national identity, 'Englishness' and the native landscape. Combining close investigation of important works with a broader enquiry into the appeal of the Mediterranean for an age preoccupied with cultural degeneracy and bodily health, Ysanne Holt draws fascinating conclusions about the impact of modernism on the British tradition of landscape painting.

Nature Notebook: Puffin (Notebook / blank book): Jane Smith Nature Notebook: Puffin (Notebook / blank book)
Jane Smith
R242 Discovery Miles 2 420 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This notebook features a beautiful cover illustration by acclaimed nature artist Jane Smith. It contains 192 pages of lined paper, head-and-tail bans, a ribbon marker and band to keep it securely fastened.

Science Of Creature Design - Understanding Animal Anatomy (Paperback): Terryl Whitlatch Science Of Creature Design - Understanding Animal Anatomy (Paperback)
Terryl Whitlatch; Edited by Gilbert Banducci
R1,170 R891 Discovery Miles 8 910 Save R279 (24%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

What is creature design? We all have a notion―mostly consisting of evocative images of otherworldly beings galloping, swimming, flying, and often attacking the hero of an epic film or story. But what makes a creature believable? In the follow-up to her bestseller, Animals Real and Imagined: The Fantasy of What Is and What Might Be, world-renowned artist Terryl Whitlatch reveals the secret behind believable creature design: anatomy. How anatomy applies practically to the natural history and story is the prime cornerstone on which successful creature design hangs, whether the creature is real or imaginary. Studying, understanding, drawing, and applying accurate anatomy to an imaginary creature will make viewers suspend their disbelief to welcome a new vision into their worlds. We invite you to immerse yourself in the intricate workings of numerous animal anatomies―and the beauty they possess―in the Science of Creature Design: Understanding Animal Anatomy. Whitlatch’s delightful and charismatic illustrations will inform and thrill readers with every turn of the page. She shares valuable techniques reaped from years working for Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Feature Animation, and on such films as Jumanji, Brother Bear, and The Polar Express. In addition, Whitlatch exemplifies an endless love for real animals that continues to inspire her fantastic imaginary creatures, which have captivated audiences around the world.

Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt (Paperback): Boudewijn Bakker Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt (Paperback)
Boudewijn Bakker
R1,838 Discovery Miles 18 380 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Offering a corrective to the common scholarly characterization of seventeenth-century Dutch landscape painting as modern, realistic and secularized, Boudewijn Bakker here explores the long history and purpose of landscape in Netherlandish painting. In Bakker's view, early Netherlandish as well as seventeenth-century Dutch painting can be understood only in the context of the intellectual climate of the day. Concentrating on landscape painting as the careful depiction of the visible world, Bakker's analysis takes in the thought of figures seldom consulted by traditional art historians, such as the fifteenth-century philosopher Dionysius the Carthusian, the sixteenth-century religious reformer John Calvin, the geographer Abraham Ortelius and the seventeenth-century poet Constantijn Huygens. Probing their conception of nature as 'the first Book of God' and art as its representation, Bakker identifies a world view that has its roots in the traditional Christian perceptions of God and creation. Landscape and Religion from Van Eyck to Rembrandt imposes a new layer of interpretation on the richly varied landscapes of the great masters. In so doing it adds a new dimension to the insights offered by modern art-historical research. Further, Bakker's explorations of early modern art and literature provide essential background for any student of European intellectual history.

Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings - Still Life, Vision, and the Devotional Image (Paperback): Susan Merriam Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings - Still Life, Vision, and the Devotional Image (Paperback)
Susan Merriam
R1,827 Discovery Miles 18 270 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Focusing on three celebrated northern European still life painters"Jan Brueghel, Daniel Seghers, and Jan Davidsz. de Heem"this book examines the emergence of the first garland painting in 1607-1608, and its subsequent transformation into a widely collected type of devotional image, curiosity, and decorative form. The first sustained study of the garland paintings, the book uses contextual and formal analysis to achieve two goals. One, it demonstrates how and why the paintings flourished in a number of contexts, ranging from an ecclesiastical center in Milan, to a Jesuit chapter house and private collections in Antwerp, to the Habsburg court in Vienna. Two, the book shows that when viewed over the course of the century, the images produced by Brueghel, Seghers and de Heem share important similarities, including an interest in self-referentiality and the exploration of pictorial form and materials. Using a range of evidence (inventories, period response, the paintings themselves), Susan Merriam shows how the pictures reconfigured the terms in which the devotional image was understood, and asked the viewer to consider in new ways how pictures are made and experienced.

Animals into Art (Paperback): Howard Morphy Animals into Art (Paperback)
Howard Morphy
R1,712 Discovery Miles 17 120 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is one of a series of volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its widest sense, investigating how people lived in the past and how and why changes took place to result in the forms of society and culture which exist now. The series brought together archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, academics from contingent disciplines, and also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds who could lend their own expertise to the discussions. This book is an exploration of the way in which the animal world features in the works of art of a variety of cultures of different times and places. Contributors have adopted a variety of perspectives for looking at the complex ways in which past and present humans have interrelated with beings they classify as animals. Some of the approaches are predominantly economic and ecological, some are symbolic and others philosophical or theological. All these different views are included in the interpretation of the artworks of the past, revealing some of the foci and inspirations of cultural attitudes to animals. Originally published 1989.

Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica (Hardcover, New Ed): Charmaine A.... Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica (Hardcover, New Ed)
Charmaine A. Nelson
R5,115 Discovery Miles 51 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Slavery, Geography and Empire in Nineteenth-Century Marine Landscapes of Montreal and Jamaica is among the first Slavery Studies books - and the first in Art History - to juxtapose temperate and tropical slavery. Charmaine A. Nelson explores the central role of geography and its racialized representation as landscape art in imperial conquest. One could easily assume that nineteenth-century Montreal and Jamaica were worlds apart, but through her astute examination of marine landscape art, the author re-connects these two significant British island colonies, sites of colonial ports with profound economic and military value. Through an analysis of prints, illustrated travel books, and maps, the author exposes the fallacy of their disconnection, arguing instead that the separation of these colonies was a retroactive fabrication designed in part to rid Canada of its deeply colonial history as an integral part of Britain's global trading network which enriched the motherland through extensive trade in crops produced by enslaved workers on tropical plantations. The first study to explore James Hakewill's Jamaican landscapes and William Clark's Antiguan genre studies in depth, it also examines the Montreal landscapes of artists including Thomas Davies, Robert Sproule, George Heriot and James Duncan. Breaking new ground, Nelson reveals how gender and race mediated the aesthetic and scientific access of such - mainly white, male - artists. She analyzes this moment of deep political crisis for British slave owners (between the end of the slave trade in 1807 and complete abolition in 1833) who employed visual culture to imagine spaces free of conflict and to alleviate their pervasive anxiety about slave resistance. Nelson explores how vision and cartographic knowledge translated into authority, which allowed colonizers to 'civilize' the terrains of the so-called New World, while belying the oppression of slavery and indigenous displacement.

Have You Seen Mary? (Paperback): Jeff Kurrus Have You Seen Mary? (Paperback)
Jeff Kurrus; Introduction by Keanna Leonard
R260 R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Save R14 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Michael Forsberg Photography ". . . and the sky blackened with dark, gray bodies. In the blurry confusion, John lost Mary." So begins Have You Seen Mary?, Jeff Kurrus's fictional account of one sandhill crane's faithful search during spring migration for his lost mate. Set on Nebraska's Platte River, this tenderly woven story of love is also a stirring introduction to these majestic birds, replete with Michael Forsberg's radiant color photographs. This book will appeal to all ages, for it both entertains and educates readers about sandhill cranes.

Cool Chickens (Paperback): Fern Collins Cool Chickens (Paperback)
Fern Collins
R298 Discovery Miles 2 980 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Stem Cell Research in Lab Animals (Hardcover): Swapan Kumar Maiti Stem Cell Research in Lab Animals (Hardcover)
Swapan Kumar Maiti
R5,052 Discovery Miles 50 520 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
The Artificial Empire - The Indian Landscapes of William Hodges (Paperback): G.H.R Tillotson The Artificial Empire - The Indian Landscapes of William Hodges (Paperback)
G.H.R Tillotson
R1,486 Discovery Miles 14 860 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The role of the visual arts in the assertion of European colonial power has been the subject of much recent investigation and redefinition. This book takes as a ground for discussion the representation of Indian scenery and architecture by British artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It includes the work of a diversity of artists from the Daniells to Edward Lear, but central to the study is a particular focus on William Hodges, a pioneer in the field who enjoyed a close association with Britain's first Governor General in India, Warren Hastings, and whose impressive body of work as draughtsman, painter and writer formed a crucial legacy for later artists. The book includes many of his paintings and drawings rarely or never previously published, and analyses his art and writing in relation to the intellectual and aesthetic ideas of his time. The paintings and drawings discussed here are shown to be complex objects, standing in a necessarily complex relationship with historical events and ideas. This relationship is explored and defined fully, to present a new intervention in post-colonial cultural theory.

Nature Graphics (Hardcover): SendPoints Nature Graphics (Hardcover)
SendPoints
R1,431 R845 Discovery Miles 8 450 Save R586 (41%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Watercolor With Me - In The Forest (Paperback): Dana Fox Watercolor With Me - In The Forest (Paperback)
Dana Fox
R687 R598 Discovery Miles 5 980 Save R89 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Unleash your creativity with 50 no-sketch watercolor projects from the best beginner watercolor book on the market, complete with watercolor paper and gorgeous reference illustrations.

From a classic dogwood rose, to a sly fox, to feathers that take on a dreamy quality, you can create polished artwork in just a few easy steps―no sketching required. Dana Fox, creator of Wonder Forest, is known for her unique and whimsical sense of style, and her popular watercolor workshops have introduced thousands to the joys of painting.

In Watercolor With Me in the Forest, Dana provides light outlines of each project, and every page is printed on premium watercolor paper, so you can focus on different techniques―wet-on-dry, wet-on-wet, painting fur and ink and wash. Even if you’ve never picked up a paintbrush before, Dana’s creative tricks will ensure that every piece of art is frame-worthy.

Whether you’re looking to try a new style, learn the basics or find a new way to de-stress, this step-by- step guide makes it easier than ever to create stunning watercolor art.

Joseph Wright of Derby - Painter of Darkness (Hardcover): Matthew Craske Joseph Wright of Derby - Painter of Darkness (Hardcover)
Matthew Craske
R1,636 R1,491 Discovery Miles 14 910 Save R145 (9%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

A revelatory study of one of the 18th century's greatest artists, which places him in relation to the darker side of the English Enlightenment Joseph Wright of Derby (1734-1797), though conventionally known as a 'painter of light', returned repeatedly to nocturnal images. His essential preoccupations were dark and melancholy, and he had an enduring concern with death, ruin, old age, loss of innocence, isolation and tragedy. In this long-awaited book, Matthew Craske adopts a fresh approach to Wright, which takes seriously contemporary reports of his melancholia and nervous disposition, and goes on to question accepted understandings of the artist. Long seen as a quintessentially modern and progressive figure - one of the artistic icons of the English Enlightenment - Craske overturns this traditional view of the artist. He demonstrates the extent to which Wright, rather than being a spokesman for scientific progress, was actually a melancholic and sceptical outsider, who increasingly retreated into a solitary, rural world of philosophical and poetic reflection, and whose artistic vision was correspondingly dark and meditative. Craske offers a succession of new and powerful interpretations of the artist's paintings, including some of his most famous masterpieces. In doing so, he recovers Wright's deep engagement with the landscape, with the pleasures and sufferings of solitude, and with the themes of time, history and mortality. In this book, Joseph Wright of Derby emerges not only as one of Britain's most ambitious and innovative artists, but also as one of its most profound. Distributed for the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art

Cabin Porn: Inside (Paperback): Zach Klein, Freda Moon Cabin Porn: Inside (Paperback)
Zach Klein, Freda Moon
R549 R519 Discovery Miles 5 190 Save R30 (5%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Animals into Art (Hardcover): Howard Morphy Animals into Art (Hardcover)
Howard Morphy
R5,870 Discovery Miles 58 700 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This book is one of a series of volumes resulting from the World Archaeological Congress, September 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its widest sense, investigating how people lived in the past and how and why changes took place to result in the forms of society and culture which exist now. The series brought together archaeologists and anthropologists from many parts of the world, academics from contingent disciplines, and also non-academics from a wide range of cultural backgrounds who could lend their own expertise to the discussions. This book is an exploration of the way in which the animal world features in the works of art of a variety of cultures of different times and places. Contributors have adopted a variety of perspectives for looking at the complex ways in which past and present humans have interrelated with beings they classify as animals. Some of the approaches are predominantly economic and ecological, some are symbolic and others philosophical or theological. All these different views are included in the interpretation of the artworks of the past, revealing some of the foci and inspirations of cultural attitudes to animals. Originally published 1989.

Animals and Early Modern Identity (Hardcover, New Ed): Pia F. Cuneo Animals and Early Modern Identity (Hardcover, New Ed)
Pia F. Cuneo
R4,507 Discovery Miles 45 070 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Animals were everywhere in the early modern period and they impacted, at least in some way, the lives of every kind of early modern person, from the humblest peasant to the greatest prince. Artists made careers based on depicting them. English gentry impoverished themselves spending money on them. Humanists exercised their scholarship writing about them. Pastors saved souls delivering sermons on them. Nobles forged alliances competing with them. Foreigners and indigenes negotiated with one another through trading them. The nexus between animal-human relationships and early modern identity is illuminated in this volume by the latest research of international scholars working on the history of art, literature, and of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Germany, France, England, Spain, and South Africa. Collectively, these essays investigate how animals - horses, dogs, pigs, hogs, fish, cattle, sheep, birds, rhinoceroses, even sea-monsters and other creatures - served people in Europe, England, the Americas, and Africa to defend, contest or transcend the boundaries of early modern identities. Developments in the methodologies employed by scholars to interrogate the past have opened up an intellectual and discursive space for - and a concomitant recognition of - the study of animals as a topic that significantly elucidates past and present histories. Relevant to a considerable array of disciplines, the study of animals also provides a means to surmount traditional disciplinary boundaries through processes of dynamic interchange and cross-fertilization.

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