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The Art Of Biodiversity: Artists & Naturalists, 17001900
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Strikingly Original And Abundantly Illustrated, The Art Of Biodiversity Surveys The Golden Age Of Natural History Art, Exploring The Alliance Between Scientists And Artists That First Revealed The Astonishing Diversity Of Life On Earth.Between 1700 And 1900, An Art Movement Unveiled NatureS Great Secret: The Global Diversity Of LifeForms. Centuries Before The Word Biodiversity Existed, Naturalists Began To Glimpse The Reality That Lay Behind Charles DarwinS Lyrical Evocation Of NatureS Endless Forms Most Beautiful.The Naturalists Recruited Artists To Create A Family Album Of Earth, With Every Picture A Precise Drawing Of A Species Of Plant Or Animal, And So Science And Art, For The First And Last Time, Went Exploring Together.The Art Of Biodiversity Recounts Key Chapters In The History Of Scientific Nature Art, With More Than 330 Color Illustrations Of Surpassing Beauty. ItS A Story About Art ThatS Not In The Art History Books, And A Story About Science ThatS Missing From Histories Of Science. Here, Such Giants As Linnaeus, Buffon, Cuvier, Humboldt, And Darwin Cross Paths With Superb Artists, Including Merian, Redout, Audubon, And Haeckel, Among Many Others.This Art First Appeared In Vividly Illustrated Books That, In A World Without Photography Or Film, Offered Readers A Vastly Expanded Vision Of Nature. The Art Of Biodiversity Introduces The Reader To The Extraordinary Men And Women Who Created These Books. They Focused Exquisite Artistic Skills On Nature, Traded In Exotic Seashells And Butterflies, Collected Bird And Monkey Specimens In Tropical Rainforests, Dredged Strange Invertebrates From The Depths Of The Ocean, Peered Through Magnifying Lenses At Insects, And Dug Prehistoric Bones Out Of The Earth.After Sinking Out Of Sight In The Twentieth Century, Biodiversity Art Resurfaced In The TwentyFirst In Myriad Forms That Reach Millions Of People On The Internet, As The Natural History Books In The WorldS Great Libraries Were Digitized And Made Available To All. The Art Of Biodiversity Plots A Course Through This Wealth Of Material To Chronicle The Only Art Movement That Successfully Aligned The Goals Of Art And Science, For The Transcendent Purpose Of Documenting And Understanding The Natural World.
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