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Author : Jonathan Elphick
Release : 2017-09-07
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 331/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Birds: The Art of Ornithology by : Jonathan Elphick
Download or read book Birds: The Art of Ornithology written by Jonathan Elphick. This book was released on 2017-09-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roger J. Lederer
Release : 2019-09-25
Genre : Nature
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 19X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Art of the Bird by : Roger J. Lederer
Download or read book The Art of the Bird written by Roger J. Lederer. This book was released on 2019-09-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Sheila Finch
Release : 2004-04-01
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 566/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Birds by : Sheila Finch
Download or read book Birds written by Sheila Finch. This book was released on 2004-04-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eleven year-old Ursula Neilsen never believed NASA's verdict that carelessness caused the death of her older sister, an astronaut on a routine mission to a crippled satellite, but there wasn't much a kid could do about it. Years later, she finds herself the target of someone who's trying to kill her because she knows too much. Seeking help from a disgruntled former NASA engineer, she learns the space agency is covering up the presence of an alien her sister made contact with. It's a secret that seems about to cost her her life.
Author : Roger J. Lederer
Release : 2019-10-03
Genre : Birds in art
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 079/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Birds by : Roger J. Lederer
Download or read book Birds written by Roger J. Lederer. This book was released on 2019-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Birds, devout birder and ornithologist Roger J. Lederer celebrates the heyday of avian illustration in 40 artists' profiles, beginning with the work of Flemish painter Frans Snyders in the early 1600s and continuing through to contemporary artists like Elizabeth Buttersworth, 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 watercolours - this book is a cornucopia of art and artists as diverse and beautiful as their subjects.
Author : Jonathan Elphick
Release : 2014-10-01
Genre : Animal painters
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 109/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Birds by : Jonathan Elphick
Download or read book Birds written by Jonathan Elphick. This book was released on 2014-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beautiful books tells the story of the development of bird art through the ages. It range from the early decorative - but often fanciful - images of birds, through more accurate portrayals resulting from exploration and an increasing knowledge of the world's avifauna, to modern attempts at capturing these, the freest of all creatures. 'Birds' contains an outstanding selection of images from the unrivalled collection of the Natural History Museum in London, some of which have never been reproduced before, and includes exquisitely crafted works from some of the most famous natural-history artists. The lively text interweaves fascinating ornithological information with accounts of the lives of the artists, details of the development of the techniques they used and a critical appraisal of their achievements.
