Art and Science of William Bartram - Rilegato

Magee, Judith

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ISBN 10: 0271029145 ISBN 13: 9780271029146

Casa editrice: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, 2007

Riassunto

William Bartram's love of nature led him to explore the environs of the American Southeast between 1773 and 1777. Here he collected plants and seeds, kept a journal of his observations of nature, and made drawings of the plants and animals he encountered. The completed drawings were sent to his patron in London, and these make up the bulk of the collection held at London's Natural History Museum.
The Art and Science of William Bartram brings together, for the first time, all sixty-eight drawings by Bartram held at the Natural History Museum, along with works by some of the most well-known natural history artists of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The volume explores Bartram's writings and artwork and reveals how influential he was in American science of the period.

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Recensione:

More slithering lowlife can be found in Judith Magee's luminous The Art and Science of William Bartram. Long before Audubon, Bartram wandered through Cherokee outposts and Florida river basins, circa 1776, filling his notebooks with quasi-surrealist renderings of bobolinks and frolicking alligators. Bartram's pictures are beautifully reproduced in Magee's volume, and she makes a good c!ase for his scientific expertise. It's easy to see why Bartram's idiosyncratic work stoked the feverish fantasies of Coleridge and Wordsworth. --Christopher Benfey, Slate's Best Books of 2007

L'autore:

Judith Magee is Collections Development Manager in the Library of the Natural History Museum, London.

Judith Magee is Collections Development Manager in the Library of the Natural History Museum, London. She has acted as picture researcher for several publications and has contributed toPlant Discoveries: A Botanist's Voyage Through Plant Exploration (2003) andGreat Naturalists (forthcoming).

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• Editore: Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0271029145
• ISBN 13: 9780271029146
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 264