Botanical Sketchbooks (Hardcover)

While highly finished drawings and paintings frequently feature in histories of botanical art, the preparatory sketches, first impressions and creative thoughts on paper behind them are rarely seen and have often remained hidden and locked away. Botanical Sketchbooks brings these personal and vividly spontaneous records gloriously back into the light. In a series of biographical portraits organized thematically into four sections, the book illuminates a range of intriguing characters, from many different countries and cultures, including Germany, France, Italy, America, Australia, Japan and China. Sketchbooks proper are joined by notebooks, journals, albums, loose pieces of paper, works on vellum, manuscripts, letters, herbarium sheets and marginalia - even one drawing on the back of an envelope. Turning the pages of this book will be an invitation to relive extraordinary experiences, imagine lost worlds, and be immersed in the endeavours, observations and motivations of the makers of such beautiful and enchanting art.

General

Imprint:	Thames and Hudson
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2017
First published:	2017
Authors:	Helen Bynum • William Bynum
Dimensions:	272 x 213 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	296
ISBN-13:	978-0-500-51881-6
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Drawing & drawings > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes > Botanical art
LSN:	0-500-51881-5
Barcode:	9780500518816

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