Botanical Sketchbooks

植物的写生簿

Publisher name Thames and Hudson Ltd

Publication date 17 August 2023

Number of pages 296

Format Paperback / softback

Dimensions 20.6 x 26.6 cm

Weight 300 g

页面信息仅供参考，具体以实物为准

内容简介

一本植物学草图的视觉汇编，其中许多是专门拍摄的，提供了对艺术家在遇到植物世界的辉煌时的直接反应的启示性见解。

虽然在植物艺术史上经常出现高度完成的素描和绘画，但它们背后的准备性草图、一印象和创造性的想法却很少被人看到，而且常常被隐藏和锁起来。

本书将这些个人的、生动的自发记录光荣地带回了人们的视野。在一系列按主题组织的传记画像中，该书照亮了一系列耐人寻味的人物，他们来自许多不同的国家和文化，包括德国、法国、意大利、美国、澳大利亚、日本和中国。笔记本、日记、相册、散页、羊皮纸作品、手稿、信件、标本馆纸张和旁注--甚至还有信封背面的绘画。

翻开这本书将是一个邀请，让我们重温非凡的经历，想象失落的世界，并沉浸在如此美丽和迷人的艺术的制作者的努力、观察和动机中。

A visual compendium of botanical sketches, many specially photographed, providing a revealing insight into the immediate responses of artists encountering the glories of the plant world.

While highly finished drawings and paintings frequently feature in histories of botanical art, the preparatory sketches, first impressions and creative thoughts on paper behind them are rarely seen and have often remained hidden and locked away.

Botanical Sketchbooks brings these personal and vividly spontaneous records gloriously back into the light. In a series of biographical portraits organized thematically into four sections, the book illuminates a range of intriguing characters, from many different countries and cultures, including Germany, France, Italy, America, Australia, Japan and China. Sketchbooks proper are joined by notebooks, journals, albums, loose pieces of paper, works on vellum, manuscripts, letters, herbarium sheets and marginalia – even one drawing on the back of an envelope.

Turning the pages of this book will be an invitation to relive extraordinary experiences, imagine lost worlds, and be immersed in the endeavours, observations and motivations of the makers of such beautiful and enchanting art.