Audubon, the Naturalist in the New World
Author | : Mrs. Horace St. John |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Ornithologists |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mrs. Horace St. John |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1856 |
Genre | : Ornithologists |
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Author | : John James Audubon |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1842 |
Genre | : Birds |
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This edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500. The original configurations were altered so that there is only one species per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839).
Author | : John James Audubon |
Publisher | : White Lion Publishing |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Artists |
ISBN | : 9780565093396 |
'Birds of America' is one of the best known natural history books ever produced and also one of the most valuable - a complete set sold at auction in December 2010 for 7.3 million, which is a world record.
Author | : Fabien Grolleau |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2017-04-04 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1910620157 |
At the start of the nineteenth century, John James Audubon embarked upon an epic ornithological quest across America with nothing but his artist’ s materials, an assistant, a gun and an all-consuming passion for birds... This beautiful volume tells the story of an incredible artist and adventurer: one who encapsulates the spirit of early America, when the wilderness felt limitless and was still greatly unexplored. Based on Audubon's own retellings, this graphic novel version of his travels captures the wild and adventurous spirit of a truly exceptional naturalist and painter.
Author | : Carolyn Merchant |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2016-08-23 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0300224923 |
In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine. The magazine constituted one of the first efforts to preserve bird species decimated by the women’s hat trade, hunting, and loss of habitat. Within two years, however, for practical reasons, Grinnell dissolved both the magazine and the society. Remarkably, Grinnell’s mission was soon revived by women and men who believed in it, and the work continues today. In this, the only comprehensive history of the first Audubon Society (1886–1889), Carolyn Merchant presents the exceptional story of George Bird Grinnell and his writings and legacy. The book features Grinnell’s biographies of ornithologists John James Audubon and Alexander Wilson and his editorials and descriptions of Audubon’s bird paintings. This primary documentation combined with Carolyn Merchant’s insightful analysis casts new light on Grinnell, the origins of the first Audubon Society, and the conservation of avifauna.
Author | : Roberta Olson |
Publisher | : Rizzoli Publications |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2012-10-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0847834832 |
A national treasure is celebrated in this landmark publication. The Birds of America is a monumental classic, but it has never been explored like this before. This important new volume presents all the dazzling watercolors that Audubon painted for these monumental engravings. We are familiar with the prints engraved by Robert Havell Jr., but Audubon’s Aviary illuminates the original masterpieces that were created by Audubon himself and tells the story behind their creation with fresh insights and engaging quotes from his writings. These powerful paintings—all newly photographed using state-of-the-art techniques—possess a startling immediacy, vibrancy, and fluidity that link natural history, art, and a respect for the environment. These watercolors transmit Audubon’s devotion to his craft with their inscriptions and layers of media wrought with a miniaturist’s attention to detail and their revolutionary compositions, which for the first time in history depicted all the birds life-size. Audubon is considered America’s first great watercolorist, introducing innovative approaches developed over a lifetime of study. Even judged alongside today’s technology, his dramatic tableaux remain some of the most spectacular natural history documents and visually arresting works of art ever produced.
Author | : American Museum of Natural History |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 784 |
Release | : 1918 |
Genre | : Museums |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William Souder |
Publisher | : Milkweed Editions |
Total Pages | : 393 |
Release | : 2014-07-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1571319239 |
In this Pulitzer Prize–finalist biography, the author of Mad at the World examines the little-known life of the man behind the well-known bird survey. John James Audubon is renowned for his masterpiece of natural history and art, The Birds of America, the first nearly comprehensive survey of the continent’s birdlife. And yet few people understand, and many assume incorrectly, what sort of man he was. How did the illegitimate son of a French sea captain living in Haiti, who lied both about his parentage and his training, rise to become one of the greatest natural historians ever and the greatest name in ornithology? In Under a Wild Sky this Pulitzer Prize finalist, William Souder reveals that Audubon did not only compose the most famous depictions of birds the world has ever seen, but he also composed a brilliant mythology of self. In this dazzling work of biography, Souder charts the life of a driven man who, despite all odds, became the historical figure we know today. “A meticulous biography and a fascinating portrait of a young nation.”—San Francisco Chronicle “As richly endowed and densely packed as the forests of Audubon’s day.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune “Deftly weaves together the story of the self-taught artist and naturalist…with the development of scientific inquiry in the early years of the republic and the lives of ordinary Americans as the new nation spilled westward over the mountains from the Eastern seaboard.”—Los Angeles Times