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022667505X azw3 022667505X azw3 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 and continuing through to contemporary artists like Elizabeth Butterworth, famed for her portraits of macaws. Stretching its wings across time, taxa, geography, and artistic stylefrom the celebrated realism of American conservation icon John James Audubon, to Elizabeth Goulds nineteenth-century renderings of museum specimens from the Himalayas, to Swedish artist and ornithologist Lars Jonssons ethereal watercolorsthis book is feathered with art and artists as diverse and beautiful as their subjects. A soaring exploration of our fascination with the avian form, Read more