Extinct

Artistic Impressions of Our Lost Wildlife

Benjamin Gray (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

136 Seiten

2021
CSIRO Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-4863-1371-6 (ISBN)

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Presents a collection of artworks from established and emerging Australian fine artists, each depicting an Australian animal that has already, for various reasons, tumbled over the edge into extinction. This book laments their loss, but also celebrates their former existence, diversity and significance.

Australia is home to an incredible diversity of native animals. While Australian animals are among the most unique in the world, they are also among the most endangered, with hundreds currently on the brink of extinction. We must act quickly if we are to save these species, as once gone, they are gone forever.

Extinct is a collection of artworks from established and emerging Australian fine artists, each depicting an Australian animal that has already, for various reasons, tumbled over the edge into extinction. Extinct laments their loss, but also celebrates their former existence, diversity and significance. The stunning artworks are accompanied by stories of each animal, highlighting the importance of what we have lost, so that we appreciate what we have not lost yet.

FEATURES

Features original artworks by over 40 of Australia's contemporary and most distinguished artists, including those from Indigenous and migrant backgrounds and artists with intellectual disabilities.
Highlights many species that have never been depicted or photographed before, or those for which only a handful of visual references exist.
Presents physical descriptions and meticulously researched, fascinating facts about the behaviour and biology of these lost species.
Includes previously unheard stories of these extinct species, drawn from Indigenous histories, colonial commerce and European settlement.
Extinct features artworks from Bernard Ollis, Brook Garru Andrew, Bruce Goold, Chris O'Doherty (AKA Reg Mombassa), Sally Robinson, Eliza Gosse and Jenny Watson.

Benjamin Gray is an ecologist and historian whose work aims to explore the ethical and emotional significance of extinction, interactions between human and non-human animals in modern society, and the serious social, economic and environmental consequences of global biodiversity loss. He is a self-taught artist and keen follower of the Arts in Australia and internationally.

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Big-Eared Hopping Mouse

Blue-Grey Mouse

Bramble Cay Melomys

Broad-Cheeked Hopping Mouse

Broad-Faced Potoroo

Capricorn Rabbit-Rat

Christmas Island Pipistrelle

Crescent Nailtail Wallaby

Darling Downs Hopping Mouse

Desert Bandicoot

Desert Bettong

Desert Rat-Kangaroo

Dusky Flying Fox

Eastern Hare-Wallaby

Eungella Gastric-Brooding Frog

Gould's Mouse

Kangaroo Island Emu

King Island Emu

Lake Mackay Hare-Wallaby

Lake Pedder Earthworm

Lesser Bilby

Lesser Stick-Nest Rat

Long-Tailed Hopping Mouse

Lord Howe Flax Snail

Lord Howe Gerygone

Mount Glorious Day Frog

Nullarbor Dwarf Bettong

Paradise Parrot

Pig-Footed Bandicoot

Robust White-Eye

Sharp Snouted Day Frog

Short-Tailed Hopping Mouse

Southern Gastric-Brooding Frog

Tasman Starling

Thylacine

Toolache Wallaby

Tornelasmias capricorni

White Gallinule

White-Footed Rabbit-Rat

A story of hope: The Mountain Pygmy-Possum and the Bogong Moth

Artist biographies

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	28.10.2021
Verlagsort	Melbourne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	215 x 305 mm
Gewicht	1333 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	1-4863-1371-X / 148631371X
ISBN-13	978-1-4863-1371-6 / 9781486313716
Zustand	Neuware