Created during Alexander von Humboldt's historic expedition to the Americas and Cuba-hailed by many as the scientific discovery of AmericaA"-these intricate and delicately tinted prints record his revolutionary findings as he traveled through jungles, across rivers, and over mountainous terrain. The illustrations in the book give the English and Latin botanical names of the plants and are followed by an exhaustive index. Published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Humboldt's death, this...
Artistic Plants and Flowers (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)
by M. P. Verneuil
Nature has always been a source of inspiration for the design of the human environment, but in recent years this relationship has grown even more intense. "Nature as model" has influenced the most diverse possible concepts and developmental processes and is revealed in a large spectrum of forms and functions. Nature Design brings together projects and objects from design, architecture, landscape architecture, photography, and art that have been inspired by nature to develop complex and innovativ...
Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse
by Monty Don and Ann Dumas
While depictions of gardens are found across the centuries and around the world, within Europe the Impressionists were among the first to portray gardens directly from life, focusing on their colour and form rather than using them as a background for historical, religious and literary themes. This volume explores the close, symbiotic relationship between artists and gardens that developed during the latter part of the nineteenth and the first part of the twentieth centuries, centring on Monet, a...
Winner, Canadian Museums Association’s Outstanding Achievement in Research Award and IPPY Awards Silver Medal (Fine Art)A Toronto Star Holiday Gift Guide Selection A Like Vision is a lavish celebration of the legacy of Tom Thomson and the Group of Seven, Canada’s canonical landscape painters. The Group’s depiction of the rugged beauty of the Canadian landscape — from the coastal mountains of British Columbia to the north shore of Lake Superior, the villages of rural Quebec, and the rocky, winds...
Deserts of the World (Spectacular Places)
by Susanne Mack and Anthony Ham
Imagine a sea of sand dunes the size of a European country, a world in motion, exquisite ridge lines perfectly sculpted by the winds and stretching to a layered horizon. Or a remote mountain massif in black rock or sandstone, hewn by the elements and marked in red ochre with the passage of ancient rock artists. Or a salt pan shimmering to a seemingly endless horizon. Welcome to the world's deserts, a realm of astonishing and dramatic beauty, as much places of the soul and the imagination as actu...
Raphael Macek's inspiring images of equine majesty now available in a smaller format. Fine-art photography that does true justice to equine nobility. A must-have for all horse lovers.
While Klimt is largely revered for his opulent, symbol-laden portraits of the Viennese bourgeoisie, these works were just one aspect of his artistic expression. Klimt's landscapes also represent an important facet of his career. Accompanied by essays from scholars, the images reproduced in this book comprise all extant landscapes by Klimt. These paintings demonstrate a little-known aspect of the painter's oeuvre and reveal themes that appeared throughout his life's work.
William Bartram's love of nature led him to explore the environs of the American Southeast between 1773 and 1777. Here he collected plants and seeds, kept a journal of his observations of nature, and made drawings of the plants and animals he encountered. The completed drawings were sent to his patron in London, and these make up the bulk of the collection held at London's Natural History Museum. The Art and Science of William Bartram brings together, for the first time, all sixty-eight drawing...
Pastures Green & Dark Satanic Mills
by Assistant Professor Tim Barringer and Oliver Fairclough
This unique flip-book allows the reader to mix and contrast images of landscape photography taken by Richard long during an eight day walk in Dartmoor, Devon, 2005. Born in Bristol, England in 1945, Richard Long uses walking as a form of art. For Long, walking provides an ideal means for exploring relationships between time, distance, geography and measurement. These are then recorded as maps, photographs or text works, using whichever form is most appropriate for that particular idea. "I consid...
Plötzlich diese Übersicht by the Swiss artists Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012), a loose collection of over 350 hand-sculpted, unfired clay figures, is one of those artworks that is very familiar even to those who are not all that interested in art. The artists have created a masterpiece, using an entirely unspectacular material to form sculptural snapshots that sparkle with cheerful wit : sketched models of everyday situations and objects ; clay reproductions that reveal the...
The Irrawaddy River, with its 2,170 kilometres is the longest river in Southeast Asia after the Mekong. It is also the biggest waterway and the most important transport route in Myanmar. The course of the river flows past innumerable Buddhist cultural sites, including Bagan. Past children playing on the riverbanks, past women doing laundry in the water of the river, past meditating monks, past the real life of Myanmar. On May 2, 2008, a cyclone ravaged wide areas of the Irrawaddy Delta and cause...
Insect Theatre is the result of photographer and lecturer Tim Edgar's three-year project examining the insect life in his home through a close-up lens. With macro photography Edgar is able to capture the fragile nature of the insects and the conflict in the chaotic web in which they reside, providing a uniquely personal and fascinating view of the creatures sharing his domestic space and the 'performances' they play out. Anthropologist and insect expert Hugh Raffles annotates Edgar's project, d...
Do you long to cultivate more creative joy in your painting? Flowers are organic, wonderfully forgiving subjects. Each one is unique; you can't paint one wrong! Painted Blossoms will encourage you to welcome creativity with ease as you discover ways to tend the garden within. In addition to watching yourself grow through seven different stepped-out flower projects, you'll learn basic design elements, how to get unstuck from the mud, how to carve your own stamps, cut your own stencils and more. A...
Digital Techniques For Successful Nature Photography (Digital Quick Guides)
by Cub Kahn
Make the Wise Choice to Take a Break Quiet, observant, and focused, the owl can teach us a few things about being calm. So grab your favorite coloured pencils or markers and fly off to a place of peace to enjoy some creative colouring. With these 47 intricate and delightful drawings, you'll quickly find your body and mind unwinding as you let your colourist talents shine.
A Covenant of Seasons
by David P. Curry, Pattiann Rogers, Robert Adams, and Et Al
This text marries the work of landscape painter, Joellyn Duesberry, and poet, Pattiann Rogers. They both express their personal responses to nature as it passes through the metamorphoses of the four seasons, sharing a reliance on the evocative use of compression and distillation. Duesberry's monotypes are by turns poetic and edgy, scenic and abstract, representing sites in Alaska, California, New York and other places throughout the USA. The moods of her paintings are paralleled in Rogers' 13 po...
Dogs can be a pleasure to draw, whether they are dignified, elegant, cute or scruffy. Suzie Hodges shows you how to capture the character of a great selection of popular dog breeds. This delightful introduction to drawing dogs completely demystifies the drawing process. It shows how images can be built up easily, from initial geometric shapes right through to the finished animals. Susie Hodges includes a good selection of popular breeds and she uses a helpful two colour method that clearly show...
Readers will love coloring these all new designs created from the groovy art and illustrations of Thaneeya McArdle. Cool, patterned pages use imagery including owls, peace signs, shooting stars, doodles, paisleys, flowers, birds, cats, hot air balloons and more! Pages are singled-sided, perforated, and large-format making them perfect for coloring, and then displaying!