THE NATURAL HISTORY OF EDWARD LEAR
Book ID/图书代码： 03650116B88678
English Summary/英文概要： Before he became celebrated as the writer and illustrator of nonsense poetry, Edward Lear was a prolific painter of natural history subjects who earned near-universal praise for the accuracy, originality and elegant style of his animated depictions of birds and other wildlife. His best remembered scientific contribution is his magnificent monograph on parrots, the first English natural history book to focus on a single family of birds, which he began to publish when he was just 18. His depictions of “species hitherto unfigured” dazzled the world and established Lear as the artist of choice for many of the leading ornithological publishers. In that golden age of color-plate books, an era still celebrated for the great volumes created by John James Audubon and John Gould, Lear created some of the most spectacular natural history illustrations ever published. He did so without the benefit of any formal training in art, and with neither independent funding nor institutional support. The original watercolors for his scientific paintings – many reproduced here for the first time - confirm Lear’s place among the greatest natural history painters of all time.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在以“谐趣诗”成为著名的作家和插画家之前，爱德华•李尔是一位多产的自然历史题材的画家，他对鸟类和其他野生动物栩栩如生的描绘，其准确、独特和简洁优美的风格赢得了众多赞誉。他最值得纪念的科学贡献是其关于鹦鹉的宏伟巨著，这是第一部集中关注单一鸟类的英语自然历史书，这本书刚出版时，他只有18岁。他关于“迄今未用图案描述的物种“的描写令世界眼花缭乱，并奠定了李尔成为许多领先的鸟类出版商首选艺术家的地位。在那个彩色版图书的黄金时代，一个仍然为约翰•詹姆斯•奥杜邦和约翰•古尔德的伟大作品喝彩的时代，李尔创造了有史以来出版过的最壮观的自然历史插图书籍之一。他做这些的时候没有经过任何形式的艺术培训，也没有独立的资金和机构支持。他的科学绘画的原始水彩——很多事第一次再版——确立了李尔王在所有最伟大的自然历史画家之间的地位。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：Open this exquisite retrospective of Edward Lear…[and] you will also come to appreciate him as a consummate observer of nature, and that is how the artist himself might have wished to be remembered.--Natural History Magazine
The focus of the book is on Lear as a painter of natural history, with plenty of his illustrations beautifully reproduced within. This is a keepsake for fans of Lear and anyone interested in art and natural history. --Publishers Weekly
About the Author/作者介绍： 罗伯特•麦克拉肯•配克是卓克索大学自然科学学院的艺术品和手工艺品馆的馆长和高级研究员，他也是一个作家，艺术家和历史学家，他游历了美国北部和南部、非洲、亚洲、欧洲。他写了许多自然历史题材的书籍，也为报纸和很多流行和学术出版物撰写文章。
Robert McCracken Peck, curator of art and artifacts and senior fellow of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, is a writer, naturalist, and historian who has traveled extensively in North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe. He has written numerous books on the subject of natural history, and has also written for newspapers and a wide range of popular and scholarly publications.
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