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Voyages of discovery
Recalls three centuries of natural history exploration, and includes maps and rare drawings, as well as the stories of Captain Cook, Charles Darwin, and other explorers.
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The Beauty of Birds: From \Birdscapes: Birds in Our Imagination and Experience\
Spring returns and with it the birds. But it also brings throngs of birders who emerge, binoculars in hand, to catch a glimpse of a rare or previously unseen species or to simply lay eyes on a particularly fine specimen of a familiar type. In a delightful meditation that unexpectedly ranges from the Volga Delta to Central Park and from Charles Dickens's Hard Times to a 1940s London burlesque show, Jeremy Mynott ponders what makes birds so beautiful and alluring to so many people.
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Amazing rare things : the art of natural history in the age of discovery
Describes the methods by which selected European artists, from Leonardo Da Vinci to Mark Catesby, portrayed the natural world during the Age of Discovery.
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Bad Hair Days in the Paleolithic: Modern (Re)Constructions of the Cave Man
Although we have never seen Paleolithic humans in the flesh, we recognize them immediately in illustrations, art, cartoons, and museum displays. The familiar iconography of the \"Cave Man\" often depicts our early human ancestors with longish, unkempt hair. However, this conventionalized image is not congruent with available archaeological data on the appearance of Upper Paleolithic humans. The lengthy iconographic history of representations of our prehistoric humans is rather a palimpsest of beliefs about the origins of humans, \"natural man,\" human nature, primitive humans, and the savage \"Other\": a history of discourses about human evolution, human language, and the place of humans in the natural world. These images are traced in their anthropological, evolutionary, and philosophical contexts from medieval art through recent scientific illustrations, art, cartoons, and murals, and their influence on the scientific interpretation of our ancestors is assessed.
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Of green leaf, bird, and flower : artists' books and the natural world
\"Highlighting an enduring interest in natural history from the 16th century to the present, this gorgeous book explores depictions of the natural world, from centuries-old manuscripts to contemporary artists' books. It examines the scientific pursuits in the 18th and 19th centuries that resulted in the collecting and cataloguing of the natural world. It also investigates the aesthetically oriented activities of self-taught naturalists in the 19th century, who gathered flowers, ferns, seaweed, feathers, and other naturalia into albums. Examples of 20th- and 21st-century artists' books, including those of Eileen Hogan, Mandy Bonnell, and Tracey Bush, broaden the vision of the natural world to incorporate its interaction with consumer culture and with modern technologies. Featuring dazzling illustrations, the book itself is designed to evoke a fieldwork notebook, and features a collection pocket and ribbon markers. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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London through a Biologist's Eyes
A professor of biology discovered that the people who are in literature rather than science, saw the same readings very differently and were looking for very different things like how nature writings expressed the author's views on nature, or what they communicated about the human experience of the living world. Further he visits London to see the environmental changes wrought by the development and sketch portraits.
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Waking up to Dinosaurs
The author examines artistic methods of depicting dinosaurs and their application to science. Information about the history, techniques and methods used, and standards of scientific illustrations are discussed.
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SUITABLE FOR FRAMING
As I described in chapters 1 and 2, insects emerged as new subject matter during the 1580s and 1590s for European artists and naturalists in courtly, academic, and medical contexts. In this chapter I examine representations of insects in European still life painting from circa 1590 to 1620 and the establishment of insects as subject matter during the formative period of this new genre of painting. As artists developed conventions for representing objects in this new genre, they drew heavily from cultural practices associated with collecting and displaying the natural world, in particular those associated with kunstkammers, cabinets, and natural
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The refined art of picturing natural history. (exhibition of scientific illustrations, Smithsonian Institution Ripley Center, Washington, DC)
The Ripley Center's exhibition will be from Jun 29-Aug 26, 1996 and will display works by members of the Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. The membership is international. Works in the exhibition include two pencil drawings of a Lataste's viper, at rest and in attack position.
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