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Author
Publisher
Barron's
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Have you ever been walking in the woods, or looking out your window, when you suddenly spotted a beautiful bird? Whether you're an artist, scientist, bird enthusiast, or student, you'll love learning how to portray all kinds of birds artistically, from sketching them in their natural environments to learning how to render a head to foot, full-detail illustration. The few books published on this topic are limited in scope and only focus on a single...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Creative Publishing international
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"This adorable book shows how to make a wide variety of birds by needle felting--sculpting wool roving into a three-dimensional figure using a special barbed needle. Each project includes a fun photo of the project with step-by-step instructions that result in 15 types of feathered friends! With Felted Feathered Friends, you'll learn to make endearing creatures such as: - A snowy owl - A peacock - A Great Blue Heron - A bluebird - A robin - A flamingo...
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
This survey of birds, chronicling their scientific and popular appeal throughout the ages and around the world, showcases the remarkable diversity of species in the avian kingdom, from tiny hummingbirds to ostriches taller than humans, and icebound penguins to tropical macaws. With its content curated alongside an international panel of ornithologists, art historians, wildlife photographers, conservationists, and curators, this extraordinary book...
Publisher
Doubleday Canada
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this stunning assemblage of words and images, novelist and avid birdwatcher Graeme Gibson has crafted an extraordinary tribute to the venerable relationship between humanity and birds. Birds have ever been the symbols of humanity's highest aspirations. As divine messengers, symbols of our yearning for the heavens, or avatars of glorious song and colour, birds have stirred our imaginations from the moment we first looked up into the sky. Whether...
Publisher
Candlewick Studio, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The images here are a selection from the hundreds sent in by children's book illustrators from all over the world for an exhibition entitled Migrations. Its aim is to express support for and solidarity with the hundreds of thousands of human migrants who face immense difficulties and dangers in their struggle to find a better and safer place to live."-- Page 8.
Publisher
Bullfrog Films
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
"The story of John James Audubon is a dramatic and surprising one. He saw more of the North American continent than virtually anyone of his time, and came to stand for America-- the America of wilderness and wild things. Audubon was a self-taught artist and a self-made man whose life was rife with action and contradiction. He played the debonair European when he visited the American frontier, and then the wild woodsman in the drawing rooms of Europe....
13) Audubon
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Naturalist and nineteenth century painter, John James Audubon was one of the most remarkable men of early America. The program brings to life his timeless paintings with dazzling footage of the living birds he immortalized, and celebrates visually the natural world he described in his writings. Interviews reveal the man, explore his art, and put his groundbreaking work in modern perspective.
Author
Publisher
Rizzoli Electa, a Division of Rizzoli International Publications, Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The first survey of the twenty-plus-year career of the highly influential multimedia artist Duke Riley, famous for expressing transgressive political and ecological themes through metaphors drawn from nautical folklore and nature. Duke Riley's work explores his lifelong fascination with urban waterways, their historical relationship to the culture of life at sea, and the uneasy intersections of human geography with the physical world. His work comments...
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