A CELEBRATION OF BIRDS - THE LIFE AND ART OF LOUIS AGASSIZ FUERTEZ by Robert McCracken Peck
Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) is acclaimed as one of the greatest painters of birds. Indeed, this American artist is unsurpassed in the ability to capture the singular beauty of birds and their truly lifelike appearance in natural settings. Where Audubon gave life to his bird and animal paintings by contrivances of design, Fuertes was concerned to represent the life of his models themselves. “No one has done it better’, as Roger Tory Peterson writes in the Introduction. Fuertes was an influential pioneer of a tradition that stretches to the present day. A Celebration of Birds is the most comprehensive book to date to examine the essence of Fuertes’s work: to illustrate how he worked as an artist, explorer and naturalist; and to assess his enormous impact on the worlds of fine art and ornithology.
Collins, 1982
ISBN: 0 00 219058 3
Condition: Extremely Good, wear on plastic cover over dustcover.
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Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) is acclaimed as one of the greatest painters of birds. Indeed, this American artist is unsurpassed in the ability to capture the singular beauty of birds and their truly lifelike appearance in natural settings. Where Audubon gave life to his bird and animal paintings by contrivances of design, Fuertes was concerned to represent the life of his models themselves. “No one has done it better’, as Roger Tory Peterson writes in the Introduction. Fuertes was an influential pioneer of a tradition that stretches to the present day. A Celebration of Birds is the most comprehensive book to date to examine the essence of Fuertes’s work: to illustrate how he worked as an artist, explorer and naturalist; and to assess his enormous impact on the worlds of fine art and ornithology.
Collins, 1982
ISBN: 0 00 219058 3
Condition: Extremely Good, wear on plastic cover over dustcover.
FB
Louis Agassiz Fuertes (1874-1927) is acclaimed as one of the greatest painters of birds. Indeed, this American artist is unsurpassed in the ability to capture the singular beauty of birds and their truly lifelike appearance in natural settings. Where Audubon gave life to his bird and animal paintings by contrivances of design, Fuertes was concerned to represent the life of his models themselves. “No one has done it better’, as Roger Tory Peterson writes in the Introduction. Fuertes was an influential pioneer of a tradition that stretches to the present day. A Celebration of Birds is the most comprehensive book to date to examine the essence of Fuertes’s work: to illustrate how he worked as an artist, explorer and naturalist; and to assess his enormous impact on the worlds of fine art and ornithology.
Collins, 1982
ISBN: 0 00 219058 3
Condition: Extremely Good, wear on plastic cover over dustcover.
FB