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The Art of the Bird - The History of Ornithological Art Through Forty Artists (Hardcover)
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The Art of the Bird - The History of Ornithological Art Through Forty Artists (Hardcover)
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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.
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