Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 199 pages)
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illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300123884
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030015173X
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9780300123883
,
9780300151732
Inhalt:
"This book invites readers to enter a two-floor virtual "gallery" where 60-plus images of birds reflecting the accomplishments of human pictorial history are on display. These are works in a genre the authors term Science Art - that is, art that says something about the natural world and how it works. Darryl Wheye and Donald Kennedy show how these works of art can advance our understanding of the ways nature has been perceived over time, its current vulnerability, and our responsibility to preserve its wealth."--Jacket
Inhalt:
Foreword: Art, science, and birds / Paul R. Ehrlich -- Preface: What is science art? -- Introduction: A gallery of science art -- Gallery guide -- Lower gallery: Bird Art over the Millennia : Room 1. Birds as icons ; Room 2. Birds as resources for human use ; Room 3. Birds as teaching tools ; Room 4. Birds as a means of understanding biology ; Room 5. Birds as a means of promoting conservation -- Mezzanine: Thinking about aesthetics, the oldest bird paintings, and painting nature -- Upper gallery: How science and art overlap ; Room 6. Science art as its own category ; Room 7. Content, style, and medium ; Room 8. The importance of captions ; Room 9. From real public venues to virtual ones ; Room 10. Science art, birds, and perceptions of nature -- Appendix 1. Timeline linking art, technology, and the study of birds -- Appendix 2. A science art checklist for practitioners
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-187) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Wheye, Darryl Humans, nature, and birds
Sprache:
Englisch
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