Reads tagged with “illustration”
Psychedelic Fishes from the World’s First Natural History Encyclopedia of Marine Creatures Illustrated in Color
An explosion of wonder at the borderline of science and the ecstatic imagination.
The Science and Splendor of Australian Butterflies: How Two 19th-Century Teenage Sisters’ Forgotten Paintings Sparked a Triumph of Modern Conservation
A bittersweet story of staggering talent, obsessive curiosity, countercultural courage, and posthumous redemption.
The Stuff of Stars: A Stunning Marbled Serenade to the Native Poetry of Science and the Cosmic Interleaving of Life
A consummate celebration of the improbable loveliness of life amid the edgeless panorama of cosmic being.
Drawing on Walls: An Illustrated Homage to Keith Haring, His Irrepressible Art of Hope, and His Beautiful Bond with Children
“Children know something that most people have forgotten. Children possess a fascination with their everyday existence that is very special and would be very helpful to adults if they could learn to understand and respect it.”
A Poem for Peter: A Lyrical Illustrated Tribute to Ezra Jack Keats and the Making of the First Mainstream Children’s Book Starring a Black Child
“Brown-sugar boy in a blanket of white. Bright as the day you came onto the page. From the hand of a man whose life and times, and hardships, and heritage, and heroes, and heart, and soul led him to you.”
A Cat: Leonard Michaels’s Playful and Poignant Meditations on the Enigma of Our Feline Companions and How They Reveal Us to Ourselves
“If you think long enough about what you see in a cat, you begin to suppose you will understand everything, but its eyes tell you there is nothing to understand, there is only life.”
An Illustrated Love Letter to Gardening
A lush serenade to the patience and fortitude of living with uncertainty and letting life unfold on its own terms.
Snakes, Dragons, and the Power of Music: Strange and Wondrous 18th-Century Illustrations of Real and Mythic Serpents
“That there is not a wise Purpose in every thing that is made because we do not understand it, is as absurd as for a Man to say, there is no such thing as Light, because he is blind and has no Eyes to see it.”
As an Antidote to Fear of Death, I Eat the Stars: Vintage Science Face Masks
Art and science between the practical and the poetic.
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