In the Footsteps of Audubon (eBook)

Denis Clavreul (Autor)

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2022
256 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-24155-5 (ISBN)

Infos

An artist's uniquely personal journey across AmericaIn the nineteenth century, ornithologist and painter John James Audubon set out to create a complete pictorial record of North American birdlife, traveling from Louisiana and the Florida Keys to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the cliffs of the Yellowstone River. The resulting work, The Birds of America, stands as a monumental achievement in American art. Over a period of sixteen years, recording his own journey in journals and hundreds of original paintings, renowned French watercolorist Denis Clavreul followed in the naturalist's footsteps.In the Footsteps of Audubon brings together some 250 of Clavreul's stunning watercolors along with illuminating selections from Audubon's journals and several of his paintings. With pencil and brush in hand, Clavreul turns his naturalist's eye and painterly skill to the landscapes that Audubon encountered on his travels, and to the animals and plants that Audubon depicted in his art. A passionate ornithologist, Clavreul sketches birds in the wild with rare dexterity, bringing them vividly to life on the page. He documents his encounters along the way with people who live with nature, many of whom are passionately engaged in preserving it, drawing on his insights as both a biologist and an artist to connect the past, present, and future.A spellbinding, richly evocative journey, In the Footsteps of Audubon is an invitation to see the natural world as Audubon saw it-and to see with new eyes what it has become today.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.11.2022
• Übersetzer: Martha Le Cars
• Vorwort: David Allen Sibley
• Zusatzinfo: 272 color illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Schlagworte: abolitionism • Anhinga • Aquilegia • Bakken Formation • biodiversity • Bonaventure Island • Breukelen • Brevity (comic strip) • Brochure • Calusa • Charles Willson Peale • Chickasaw Bluff • Colonization • Columbidae • Corps of Topographical Engineers • Counting • cupboard • David C. Driskell • Eastern meadowlark • ecosystem • Edward Preble • Egret • engraving • Everglades National Park • Field of Corn • Foreword • Franklinia • French Creek State Park • Galata Tower • Gannet • Garrison Dam • George Washington Bridge • godwit • Great egret • Historical marker • Hudson River School • identity formation • Igboland • Illustration • Illustrator • Indian Territory • In Sight • Institution • Jamaica Bay • Jasperware • John Bachman • john bartram • John James Audubon • John James Audubon State Park • L'Atalante • Lewis and Clark expedition • Loire • Louis Agassiz Fuertes • Magdalen Islands • Mammal • Measurement • Meriwether Lewis • Mill Grove • Missouri River • natural resource • Niobrara River • North Dakota • Nuthatch • Olaudah Equiano • Pamphlet • Paragraph • Parakeet • Passamaquoddy Bay • Philip Hone • plumage • Pocono Mountains • predation • Prince Edward Island • Pronghorn • Puffin • riverkeeper • roseate spoonbill • Schematic • shackle • Sierra Leone • Slavery • St. Johns River • Strait of Canso • Teacher • tern • Terry Adkins • The Various • Thomas Branagan • Thomas Clarkson • thomas nuttall • Title page • Trading Post • union army • Vireo • Wabash River • wader • Washington Irving • White Ibis • William Bartram • Wilson's Phalarope
• ISBN-10: 0-691-24155-4 / 0691241554
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-24155-5 / 9780691241555