Birds : ornithology and the great bird artists
Lederer, Roger J.2019
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Total copies: 1
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.
Main title:
Birds : ornithology and the great bird artists / Dr Roger Lederer.
Author:
Lederer, Roger J., author
Imprint:
London : Andre Deutsch, 2019.
Collation:
224 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Audience:
Specialized.
ISBN:
9780233006079 (hbk)
Dewey class:
704.9'4328704.9432
LC class:
N7665
Language:
English
BRN:
336267