生物多样性的艺术：艺术家与博物学家 The Art of Biodiversity: Artists & Naturalists

基本信息

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Abrams Books

Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 14, 2026

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Print length ‏ : ‎ 400 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1419777254

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1419777257

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.74 pounds

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.92 x 0.06 x 0.62 inches

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书籍简介

《生物多样性的艺术》一书以其独特的视角和丰富的插图，回顾了自然历史艺术的黄金时代，探索了科学家与艺术家携手合作，揭示地球生命惊人多样性的历程。

1700年至1900年间，一场艺术运动揭开了大自然的伟大秘密：全球生命形式的多样性。早在“生物多样性”一词出现之前的几个世纪，博物学家们就开始窥见查尔斯·达尔文对自然界“无穷无尽的美丽形态”的诗意描绘背后所蕴含的现实。

博物学家们招募艺术家，共同创作了一部地球的“家庭相册”，每一幅画都精准地描绘了一种动植物物种。就这样，科学与艺术携手探索。

《生物多样性的艺术》以330余幅精美绝伦的彩色插图，讲述了科学自然艺术史上的重要篇章。这是一个关于艺术史中未曾记载的艺术的故事，也是一个科学史中鲜有提及的科学故事。在这里，林奈、布丰、居维叶、洪堡和达尔文等科学巨匠与梅里安、雷杜德、奥杜邦和海克尔等杰出艺术家交相辉映。

这些艺术作品最初出现在图文并茂的书籍中，在没有摄影和电影的年代，它们为读者展现了更为广阔的自然视野。《生物多样性的艺术》一书将带领读者认识这些书籍的创作者——那些非凡的男男女女。他们将精湛的艺术技巧倾注于自然，交易珍稀的贝壳和蝴蝶，在热带雨林中采集鸟类和猴子的标本，从深海中打捞奇异的无脊椎动物，用放大镜观察昆虫，甚至从地底挖掘史前骨骼。

在二十世纪一度销声匿迹之后，生物多样性艺术在二十一世纪以多种形式重现，并通过互联网触及数百万受众。这得益于世界各大图书馆的自然史书籍被数字化并向所有人开放。《生物多样性的艺术》一书梳理了这些丰富的资料，记录了唯一成功将艺术与科学目标相结合的艺术运动，其最终目的是为了记录和理解自然世界。

Strikingly original and abundantly illustrated, The Art of Biodiversity surveys the golden age of natural history art, exploring the alliance between scientists and artists that first revealed the astonishing diversity of life on Earth.

Between 1700 and 1900, an art movement unveiled nature’s great secret: the global diversity of life-forms. Centuries before the word “biodiversity” existed, naturalists began to glimpse the reality that lay behind Charles Darwin’s lyrical evocation of nature’s “endless forms most beautiful.”

The naturalists recruited artists to create a family album of Earth, with every picture a precise drawing of a species of plant or animal, and so science and art, for the first and last time, went exploring together.

The Art of Biodiversity recounts key chapters in the history of scientific nature art, with more than 330 color illustrations of surpassing beauty. It’s a story about art that’s not in the art history books, and a story about science that’s missing from histories of science. Here, such giants as Linnaeus, Buffon, Cuvier, Humboldt, and Darwin cross paths with superb artists, including Merian, Redouté, Audubon, and Haeckel, among many others.

This art first appeared in vividly illustrated books that, in a world without photography or film, offered readers a vastly expanded vision of nature. The Art of Biodiversity introduces the reader to the extraordinary men and women who created these books. They focused exquisite artistic skills on nature, traded in exotic seashells and butterflies, collected bird and monkey specimens in tropical rainforests, dredged strange invertebrates from the depths of the ocean, peered through magnifying lenses at insects, and dug prehistoric bones out of the earth.

After sinking out of sight in the twentieth century, biodiversity art resurfaced in the twenty-first in myriad forms that reach millions of people on the Internet, as the natural history books in the world’s great libraries were digitized and made available to all. The Art of Biodiversity plots a course through this wealth of material to chronicle the only art movement that successfully aligned the goals of art and science, for the transcendent purpose of documenting and understanding the natural world.

作者简介

在艾布拉姆斯出版社四十余年的出版生涯中，埃里克·希梅尔经手并编辑了数百本艺术和科学类书籍。他与人合著了《美丽的大脑：圣地亚哥·拉蒙·卡哈尔的绘画作品集》（2017）。埃里克是摄影师莉莲·巴斯曼和保罗·希梅尔的儿子，现居纽约市，是一位作家兼雕塑家。

Over a 40-year publishing career at Abrams, Eric Himmel acquired and edited hundreds of books in the arts and sciences. He was a coauthor of The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2017). The son of photographers Lillian Bassman and Paul Himmel, Eric is an author and sculptor living in New York City.