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Humans, nature, and birds : science art from cave walls to computer screens /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2008]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.