THE ART OF BIRD ILLUSTRATION

A visual tribute to the lives and achievements of the classic bird illustrators.

Autor: LAMBOURNE, MAUREEN

Capa dura, com sobrecapa ilustrada; 192 págs.; muito ilustrado; 335 mm. Anterrosto com alguns vestígios de humidade. 

"This book is a pictorial introduction to bird illustration through the centuries. My commentary to the pictures has taken the form of an imaginary bird-watcher`s stroll through the ages including visits to the Nile valley, Pompeii, medieval Europe, the aviaries of the Baroque era, early colonial settlements in America ad Australia, the English garden and a bird conservation are in the twentieh century. At all these places and periods of history I have stopped to admire the diversity of colours, shapes of movements of birds as portrayed by many artists. The journey has been a leisurely one..." In- badana