The Art of the Bird: The History of Ornithological Art Through Forty Artists

by Roger J. Lederer

The human history of depicting birds dates to as many as 40,000 years ago, when Paleolithic artists took to cave walls to capture winged and other beasts. But the art form has reached its peak in the last four hundred years. In The Art of the Bird, devout birder and ornithologist Roger J. Lederer celebrates this heyday of avian illustration in forty artists' profiles, beginning with the work of Flemish painter Frans Snyders in the early 1600s...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022667505X
• ISBN13: 9780226675053
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 3.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.8" x 11.3"