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A Kurt Jackson bestiary
- Title
- A Kurt Jackson bestiary / Kurt Jackson with a foreword by John Krebs and an introduction by Charlotte Mullins.
- Author
- Jackson, Kurt.
- Publication
- Burlington, VT : Lund Humphries, 2015.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JQF 16-9 | Schwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300 |
Details
- Description
- 160 pages : color illustrations; 28 cm
- Summary
- Natural history and art have been life-long preoccupations of the leading British painter Kurt Jackson (b.1961). For this book, Jackson has returned to zoology, the subject he studied at university, to create a beautiful bestiary: a body of work about fauna. Bestiaries date back to medieval times when religious instruction promoted the study and interpretation of animal life, often with the aid of elaborate illustrations. Later, the religious framework fell away, as artists and authors including Picasso, Toulouse Lautrec, Guillaume Apollinaire and Jorge Luis Borges used the form as a means of exploring nature, humanity and the relationship between the two. Jackson's contemporary bestiary extends this tradition, looking closely at both everyday and lesser-known species of birds, insects, mammals and fish in order to stimulate readers' connections with and appreciation of the world around them.
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Works.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (page 158) and index.
- Contents
- Art, science and nature : Kurt Jackson's world / John Krebbs -- The book of observed beings / Charlotte Mullins -- Jellyfish and shellfish -- Butterflies and moths -- Bees and wasps -- Beetles, bugs and flies -- Fish -- Reptiles and amphibians -- Crows -- Other birds -- Mammals -- Primates -- Chronology.
- Call Number
- JQF 16-9
- ISBN
- 9781848221703 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1848221703 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2014048972
- 9781848221703
- OCLC
- 899113951
- Author
- Jackson, Kurt.
- Title
- A Kurt Jackson bestiary / Kurt Jackson with a foreword by John Krebs and an introduction by Charlotte Mullins.
- Publisher
- Burlington, VT : Lund Humphries, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (page 158) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 9781848221703
- Research Call Number
- JQF 16-9