A Kurt Jackson bestiary
By: Kurt Jackson with a foreword by John Krebs and an introduction by Charlotte Mullins
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781848221703
Subjects: Animals in art; Themes, motives
Work titles: Works
Description: Natural history and art have been life-long preoccupations of the leading British painter Kurt Jackson (b.1961). For this book, Jackson has returned to zoology, the subject he studied at university, to create a beautiful bestiary: a body of work about fauna. Bestiaries date back to medieval times when religious instruction promoted the study and interpretation of animal life, often with the aid of elaborate illustrations. Later, the religious framework fell away, as artists and authors including Picasso, Toulouse Lautrec, Guillaume Apollinaire and Jorge Luis Borges used the form as a means of exploring nature, humanity and the relationship between the two. Jackson's contemporary bestiary extends this tradition, looking closely at both everyday and lesser-known species of birds, insects, mammals and fish in order to stimulate readers' connections with and appreciation of the world around them.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 158) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword: art, science and nature : Kurt Jackson's world; title: Introduction: the book of observed beings; title: Jellyfish and shellfish; title: Butterflies and moths; title: Bees and wasps; title: Beetles, bugs and flies; title: Fish; title: Reptiles and amphibians; title: Crows; title: Other birds; title: Mammals; title: Primates.