Zoo: Animals in Art

By Edward Lucie-Smith

Book Overview

Fine artists present a gorgeous menagerie of wild and domestic creatures from habitats around the globe, captured in artwork that includes oil, pastel, acrylic, pen-and-ink, engraving, collage, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823059812
• ISBN13: 9780823059812
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Watson-Guptill Pubns
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 5.5" x 1.5" x 7.5"

Customer Reviews

A magical bestiary tour for art lovers

Zoo is a small-in-size book, but it is brimming over with clever juxtapositions of styles, periods, techniques of making art about animals. We are again indebted to Lucie-Smith for spicing this beautifully designed, written and illustrated treatise with works by contemporary artists who are perhaps not yet known to the world at large in the company of their famous colleagues. How often are we allowed to discover new images as we leaf through pages of old favorites from the masters, from antiquity, from established 20th Century artists? The unifying element is in the chapter divisions; each chapter studies a different animal group. This little gem is a perfect book for art afficiandos who think they've seen it all, as well as for animal lovers and scholars, and people who simply love fine art admixed with erudite writing.