Birds, Art & Design

Birds, Art & Design
Author: Larry Barth
Publisher: Stackpole Books
Total Pages: 233
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 0811762491

Legendary bird carver Larry Barth has created a stunning retrospective of his life's work, including sculptures from museum exhibits and rarely seen pieces from private collections. This is a must-have book for every bird lover, carver, and anyone who appreciates fine sculptural art.

Bird Anatomy for Artists

Bird Anatomy for Artists
Author: Natalia Balo
Publisher:
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2019-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780987337313

This informative textbook for artists and bird lovers is a comprehensive survey of the complete bird from head to tail. The book is full of masterly illustrations that are clear and easy to understand, including black and white working drawings, examples of the artist's field studies and exquisite colour illustrations. Every part of the bird's body is outlined in detail with informative text and helpful drawing instructions. Bird Anatomy for Artists is a published version of the Dr Natalia Balo PhD research in Natural History Illustration. The book was created in consultation with prominent ornithologists from Australian Museum, Sydney, and opens with a foreword by the famous Australian writer and ornithologist Dr. Penny Olsen. Second revised edition 2019.

Birds in a Book (A Bouquet in a Book)

Birds in a Book (A Bouquet in a Book)
Author: Lesley Earle (Children's author)
Publisher: Bouquet in a Book
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-02-05
Genre: Birds
ISBN: 9781419733932

This book contains ten beloved birds from around the world, each perched on a branch that you can 'pop up' from the page.

The Book of the Bird

The Book of the Bird
Author: Angus Hyland
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016-05-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781780677507

The Book of the Bird celebrates the bird in art with an elegant, international collection of paintings, illustrations, and photographs, featuring all kinds of birds from the smallest tits and wrens to colourful exotics. Interspersed though the illustrations are short texts giving background to the pictures and information on bird species. This is the perfect gift for all bird lovers.

Birds of the West

Birds of the West
Author: Molly Hashimoto
Publisher: Skipstone Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781680511505

Encourages birders and artists alike to really see the birds around us, in all their varied, often vivid colors, textures, and feathers

Drawing Birds

Drawing Birds
Author:
Publisher: Timber Press (OR)
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2004
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780881926972

Examples and illustrations feature over three dozen different artists and their varied sketching styles. Detailed step-by-step drawing instructions are helpful for both beginning and experienced artists.

Colour in Art, Design & Nature

Colour in Art, Design & Nature
Author: C. A. Brebbia
Publisher: WIT Press
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1845645685

This book is ambitiously inter-disciplinary and may be divided into four main sections, defined in terms of the authors themselves. Firstly, there are two contributions by biologists. Secondly, the largest section is by practising artists. Thirdly, there are two engineering-based contributions. Finally, two contributions address some of the historical proponents of colour theory and art. These eleven works, in full colour, form a striking contribution to the commonwealth of colour studies and to a possible unification of Snow's two cultures.Colour and inter-disciplinarity go hand in hand. This so often involves the authors leaving the comfort zone of their original speciality and striving for excellence in another. The personal story of Franziska Schenk is but one good example.It seems that our perceptions of aesthetics and beauty must be very flexible indeed as to find absolute opposites equally fascinating. If so, it goes to show how wonderful are the construction and operation of the human brain. Does psychology win in the end? Does colour lead to a single culture?

The Art and Archaeology of Human Engagements with Birds of Prey

The Art and Archaeology of Human Engagements with Birds of Prey
Author: Robert J. Wallis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2023-10-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1350268003

Of all avian groups, birds of prey in particular have long been a prominent subject of fascination in many human societies. This book demonstrates that the art and materiality of human engagements with raptors has been significant through deep time and across the world, from earliest prehistory to Indigenous thinking in the present day. Drawing on a wide range of global case studies and a plurality of complementary perspectives, it explores the varied and fluid dynamics between humans and birds of prey as evidenced in this diverse art-historical and archaeological record. From their depictions as powerful beings in visual art and their important roles in Indigenous mythologies, to the significance of their body parts as active agents in religious rituals, the intentional deposition of their faunal remains and the display of their preserved bodies in museums, there is no doubt that birds of prey have been figures of great import for the shaping of human society and culture. However, several of the chapters in this volume are particularly concerned with looking beyond the culture–nature dichotomy and human-centred accounts to explore perspectival and other post-humanist thinking on human–raptor ontologies and epistemologies. The contributors recognize that human–raptor relationships are not driven exclusively by human intentionality, and that when these species meet they relate-to and become-with one another. This 'raptor-with-human'-focused approach allows for a productive re-framing of questions about human–raptor interstices, enables fresh thinking about established evidence and offers signposts for present and future intra-actions with birds of prey.

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's Generative Influences in Art, Design, and Architecture
Author: Ellen K. Levy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2021-03-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1350191124

Scottish zoologist D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's visionary ideas in On Growth and Form continue to evolve a century after its publication, aligning it with current developments in art and science. Practitioners, theorists, and historians from art, science, and design reflect on his ongoing influence. Overall, the anthology links evolutionary theory to form generation in both scientific and cultural domains. It offers a close look at the ways cells, organisms, and rules become generative in fields often otherwise disconnected. United by Thompson's original exploration of how physical forces propel and shape living and nonliving forms, essays range from art, art history, and neuroscience to architecture, design, and biology. Contributors explore how translations are made from the discipline of biology to the cultural arena. They reflect on how Thompson's study relates to the current sciences of epigenesis, self-organization, biological complex systems, and the expanded evolutionary synthesis. Cross-disciplinary contributors explore the wide-ranging aesthetic ramifications of these sciences. A timeline links the history of evolutionary theory with cultural achievements, providing the reader with a valuable resource.

Birds Art Life

Birds Art Life
Author: Kyo Maclear
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2017-01-03
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1501154206

"A writer's search for inspiration, beauty, and solace leads her to birds in this ... meditation on creativity and life"--