The Book of the Bird

Author: Angus Hyland
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 9781780677507
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Book of the Bird celebrates the bird in art with an elegant, international collection of paintings, illustrations, and photographs, featuring all kinds of birds from the smallest tits and wrens to colourful exotics. Interspersed though the illustrations are short texts giving background to the pictures and information on bird species. This is the perfect gift for all bird lovers.

Birds, Art & Design

Author: Larry Barth
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811762491
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 233

The Art of the Bird

Author: Roger J. Lederer
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022667519X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
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.

Bird Art

Author: Woollett
Publisher: Search Press Limited
ISBN: 1781265410
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages :

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Bird Books and Bird Art

Author: J. Anker
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 9401179832
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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The Bird Artist

Author: Howard Norman
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0374706271
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 306

Book Description
Howard Norman's The Bird Artist, the first book of his Canadian trilogy, begins in 1911. Its narrator, Fabian Vas is a bird artist: He draws and paints the birds of Witless Bay, his remote Newfoundland coastal village home. In the first paragraph of his tale Fabian reveals that he has murdered the village lighthouse keeper, Botho August. Later, he confesses who and what drove him to his crime--a measured, profoundly engrossing story of passion, betrayal, guilt, and redemption between men and women. The Bird Artist is a 1994 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.

Bird Painting Between Art and Science

Author: Hugh Ridley
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 139842594X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 271

Book Description
Have you ever wondered why so many scientific handbooks on birds use paintings rather than photographs, or why the painters Killian Mullarney and Lars Johnson are such significant figures in ornithology? This book gives an account of the 500 years during which bird-painting reached such heights, and it traces the growth of scientific realism in this field. It shows how scientific understanding has shaped the art, and how artistic style has left its mark on the science. Birds cross frontiers unhindered, and the language of painting too knows no national barriers. This book explores the huge contribution of German painting to the international tradition. It looks at the work of great artists – Dürer and Rembrandt. It introduces the fascinating but neglected artists who made the landmark handbooks of the past. It pays tribute to those major figures of the last 150 years who brought the art to its perfection: Josef Wolf and Bruno Liljefors, and looks briefly at the competition with photography at the start of the twentieth century. It reveals the interlocking of art with the science of ornithology, as it was developed by figures such as Buffon and Darwin.

Birds, Art & Design

Author: Larry Barth
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811713598
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 234

Book Description
Legendary bird carver Larry Barth has created a stunning retrospective of his life's work, including sculptures from museum exhibits and rarely seen pieces from private collections. This is a must-have book for every bird lover, carver, and anyone who appreciates fine sculptural art. • 24 finely detailed sculptures in wood shown in up-close photographs • Includes his early work, the Ward world-class winners, and his most recent pieces • Barth shares insights on how he conceives, designs, and executes his blue-ribbon masterpieces

Drawing and Painting Birds

Author: Tim Wootton
Publisher: Crowood
ISBN: 1785000535
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 519

Book Description
Birds are much admired, revered and envied. They have featured in art for many thousands of years and our fascination with them continues. They do though pose a challenge to paint and are not always the most cooperative of models. This practical book explains in detail how to go about drawing and painting birds. By understanding their anatomy and recognising their type, the artist can learn a shorthand way to capture movement and attitude. With technique and colour mastered, style develops and a special scene can be captured uniquely forever. In this book, Tim Wootton explains bird types and how identifying specific similarities can help the artist; advises on painting in the field, using photographs and working in the studio; describes how to paint plumage and birds in flight; demonstrates how to compose a painting with emphasis on the birds' habitat; and gives insights into painting birds from 30 leading artists, as well as illustrations of their work, including John Busby, Robert Bateman and Charles Tuncliffe. Beautifully illustrated with 423 colour illustrations.

Art of Painting and Drawing Animals

Author: Fredric Sweney
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486844781
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 201

Book Description
Practical guide makes it easier for beginners as well as advanced artists to paint everything from dogs, cats, and deer to birds, sheep, and goats. 236 black-and-white illustrations, 26 in color.