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Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Prints & printmaking
This comprehensive survey of the career of Edward Bawden (1903-89)
accompanied a major exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery and
brings together his most significant work in watercolour,
printmaking, design and illustration. Bawden began his career in
the 1920s as a precociously talented designer and illustrator, and
he successfully reinvented himself time and again as the decades
passed while always retaining a distinctive freshness, humour and
humanity in his work. The book explores in depth the most
significant creative periods of Bawden's life and is fully
illustrated throughout.
The book Art Forms in Nature is a collection of prints, made by the
scientist Ernst Haeckel, of an enormous variety of flora and fauna
from the sea-including microscopic Radiolaria, starfish and jelly
fish-and since Prestel published it in 1998, it has been a
favourite with artists, designers, illustrators and anyone who
enjoys the wondrous forms of the natural world. Now paper engineer
Maike Biederstaedt has transformed Haeckel's transcendent work into
a three-dimensional book that allows readers to appreciate
Haeckel's vivid colours, exceptional precision and fascination with
patterns and geometry. This stunning book features seven pop-ups
that allow readers to see nature's brilliance the way that Haeckel
did-as marvellous, mathematically based creations that support his
theory of the unity of all living things. Certain to appeal to his
huge variety of fans, this pop-up version of a timeless classic
will be treasured for years to come.
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