Feather and Brush: Three Centuries of Australian Bird Art
- ISBN-10
- 0643065474
- ISBN-13
- 9780643065475
- Category
- Animal painters
- Pages
- 227
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- CSIRO PUBLISHING
- Author
- Penny Olsen
Description
This volume traces the 300-year history of bird art in Australia, from the crudely illustrated records of the earliest European voyages of discovery to the diversity of artwork available at the start of the 21st century. It is a history inseparable from the development of Australian ornithology. Against a background of establishment of the country itself, naval draftsmen, convicts, officers, settlers, naturalists, artists and scientists alike contributed both to the art and to science.
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