num_pages: 352
description: 'The most glorious cornucopia celebrating our enduring love affair with birds - an uplifting and eye opening tribute to the way they enrich our lives.' - Alan Titchmarsh MBE British TV presenter broadcaster and gardener'Wonderfully illustrated.' - Wall Street JournalLet your imagination take flight and celebrate the beauty and diversity of birds throughout art science history and cultureThis visually stunning survey of birds chronicling their scientific and popular appeal throughout the ages and around the world showcases the remarkable diversity of species in the avian kingdom from tiny hummingbirds to ostriches taller than humans and icebound penguins to tropical macaws.With its content curated alongside an international panel of ornithologists art historians wildlife photographers conservationists and curators this extraordinary book includes illustrations and artwork of all styles with works by a diverse and often surprising range of creators from many different backgrounds including: John James Audubon; Robert Clark; Mark Dion; Charley Harper; Barbara Kruger; Edward Lear; Ustad Mansur; John Ruskin; Joel Sartore; Sarah Stone; and Charles Frederick Tunnicliffe.Arranged in thoughtfully paired juxtapositions it reveals how artists illustrators ornithologists and photographers - from ancient Egypt to the present - have captured the spirit likeness character and symbolism of birds. Including Tweety pie paired with the Twitter bird; birds as 300-foot desert carvings or 2-inch-tall ivory statuettes; bird bones bird bank notes sculptures and birds shaped as beds the book's three hundred visually stunning entries span four thousand years of fine art photography ornithological drawings popular culture and scientific discovery from all corners of the globe to create the ultimate celebration of the winged world.Advisory panel: Dawn Balmer Tim Birkhead FRS Dr Alexander Bond Gordon Campbell Dr Sylke Frahnert Jolle Garcia Elizabeth Hammer David Lindo aka The Urban Birder Jen Lobo Fred G. Meijer Sabine Meyer Penny Olsen Oliver Rampley Katrina van Grouw and Dr Lisanne WeplerAdditional texts: Giovanni Aloi Sara Bader Dr Alex Bond Dr Michael Brooke Tim Cooke Clare Coulson Nick Crumpton Louisa Elderton Diane Fortenberry Carolyn Fry Elizabeth Hammer David Lindo Fred G. Meijer David B Miller Rebecca Morrill Penny Olsen Michele Robecchi Gill Saunders James Smith David Trigg Katrina van Grouw Martin Walters Isabella Wing-Davey and Dr Lisanne Wepler
language: English
title: Bird: Exploring the Winged World
publisher: Phaidon Press