Subjects & Themes - Plants & Animals
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Botanical: Observing Beauty
$49.95 Read moreA gorgeous botanical tour of art and design across the ages
This handsome volume invites readers on an intimate stroll through centuries of jewelry, botany, drawing, prints, video-game imagery and scie
- Author: Ramos, Filipa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 2365680607
- Language: English
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David Hockney’s Dog Days
$19.95 Read more“From September 1993, I painted and drew my dogs. This took a certain amount of planning, since dogs are generally not interested in Art (I say generally only because I have now come across a singing
- Author: Hockney, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: September 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0500286272
- Language: English
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The Botanical Artist: Learn to Draw and Paint Flowers in the Style of Pierre-Joseph Redouté
$16.99 Read moreCapture the enchanting beauty of the natural world with this accessible guide to delightful botanical drawing, inspired by the revered art style of Pierre-Joseph Redout?.
Pierre-Joseph Redout? was on- Series: Royal Botanic Kew Gardens Arts & Activities #8
- Author: The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 1839406801
- Language: English
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Principles of Creature Design: Creating Imaginary Animals
$64.95 Add to cartDesigning a captivating creature simply for it to exist against a white background and going no further is a purely academic exercise. Designing a creature that can survive in a world, interact with i… [more below]
- Author: Whitlatch, Terryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1624650287
- Language: English
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Insects and Flowers: The Art of Maria Sibylla Merian
$9.95 Read moreThe artist and scientist Maria Sibylla Merian (1647-1717) was born in Frankfurt, Germany, into a middle-class family of publishers and artists. With her meticulous depictions of insect metamorphosis, … [more below]
- Author: Brafman, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 52
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0892369299
- Language: English
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Art Cat: Fine Felines of the Art World
$16.95 Add to cartCats through the eras of art.
Cats have been charming us with their indifference for as long as we’ve been sketching on canvas. In the background, on the table, or right at the forefront, cats of the- Author: Smith Street Books
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1922754250
- Language: English
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Trout of the World (Reissue)
$40.00 Add to cartIn this revised and updated edition of Trout of the World, fans of James Prosek’s unique painting talent will revel in the addition of 30 original fish paintings and a penned preface.
First released- Author: Prosek, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 05 2013
- ISBN10: 1617690236
- Language: English
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The Beauty of the Flower: The Art and Science of Botanical Illustration
$45.00 Add to cartBlooming with rare archival images, the story of scientific botanical illustrations over nearly seven hundred years.
In a world flooded with images designed to create memories, validate perceptions,- Author: Harris, Stephen A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147808
- Language: English
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Martius. the Book of Palms
$93.33 Read moreOn December 15, 1868, Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius (1794-1868), Professor of Botany at the University of Munich and director of the Royal Botanic Garden, was carried to his grave in a coffin cov
- Author: Lack, H. Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: June 23 2017
- ISBN10: 3836566141
- Language: English
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Edible Plants: A Photographic Survey of the Wild Edible Botanicals of North America
$25.00 Add to cartFor over a decade, artist Jimmy Fike traveled across the continental United States in an epic effort to photograph wild edible flora. Edible Plants is the culmination of that journey, featuring over 1
- Author: Fike, Jimmy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1684351715
- Language: English
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Audubon’s Birds of America: The Baby Elephant Folio
$195.00 Add to cart“A luxe reissue of John James Audubon’s magnum opus proves the man’s artistry itself unimpeachable. . . . Preserves the poetic backdrops and fierce detail of the original.” —New York Times
The Baby El
- Author: Peterson, Roger Tory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0789214679
- Language: English
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Principles of Creature Design: Creating Imaginary Animals
$47.95 Add to cartDesigning a captivating creature simply for it to exist against a white background and going no further is a purely academic exercise. Designing a creature that can survive in a world, interact with i… [more below]
- Author: Whitlatch, Terryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 28 2015
- ISBN10: 162465021X
- Language: English
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Flower: Exploring the World in Bloom
$64.95 Add to cartA comprehensive and sumptuous survey that celebrates the beauty and appeal of flowers throughout art, history, and culture
Take a journey across continents and cultures to discover the endless ways art
- Author: Phaidon Editors, Phaidon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1838660852
- Language: English
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Botanical Inspiration: Nature in Art and Illustration
$45.00 Add to cartA world without plants is a world without life, both literally and figuratively. Besides forming the very basis of human survival on Earth, they are also an important source of creative inspiration, i… [more below]
- Author: Victionary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 9887903493
- Language: English
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Science of Creature Design: Understanding Animal Anatomy
$57.95 Add to cartWhat is creature design? We all have a notion–mostly consisting of evocative images of otherworldly beings galloping, swimming, flying, and often attacking the hero of an epic film or story. But what… [more below]
- Author: Whitlatch, Terryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 28 2015
- ISBN10: 1624650295
- Language: English
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Paper Flowers Cards and Envelopes: The Art of Mary Delany
$18.95 Add to cartEach exquisite paper flower in this elegant collection blooms with extraordinary detail and color. Eighteenth-century British artist Mary Delany created each piece by cutting and layering tiny pieces … [more below]
- Author: Princeton Architectural Press
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- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1616899484
- Language: English
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Wild Light: A Printmaker’s Day, a Printmaker’s Night
$28.99 Add to cartWith over 70 original illustrations, printmaker Angela Harding invites you to look at how the light changes the world around us, and how that changes us in its turn. “I, like many other people, find g… [more below]
- Author: Harding, Angela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1408726807
- Language: English
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A Curious Herbal: Elizabeth Blackwell’s Pioneering Masterpiece of Botanical Art
$75.00 Add to cartIn the 1730s, Elizabeth Blackwell (1699-c. 1758) found herself penniless, with her ne’er-do-well husband confined to a London debtor’s prison. A talented artist, she came up with a unique and ambitiou… [more below]
- Author: McDowell, Marta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0789214539
- Language: English
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Art Dog: Clever Canines of the Art World
$16.95 Read moreDogs through the eras of art.
Dogs have been man’s best friend for as long as we’ve been sketching on canvas. In the background, behind the table, or right at the forefront, dogs of the past peer out- Author: Smith Street Books
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1922754269
- Language: English
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Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide
$29.95 Add to cart“Exceptionally well written and offering a complete course of art instruction on the subject of birds, Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide is beautifully illustrated throughout.” -Midwest Book Review… [more below]
- Author: Hashimoto, Molly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 1680511505
- Language: English
