Cats in Books: A Celebration of Cat Illustration Through the Ages
Cats in Books: A Celebration of Cat Illustration Through the Ages
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
Rodney Dale shows his cat-loving credentials right from the start--and why not? "Pussydom," as he puts it, is a marvelous thing, and artists have long been inspired by feline grace and danger (his first example being a stalking, elongated beast from the 8th-century Lindisfarne Gospels). Dale's high-gloss survey packs in fine art from da Vinci and Dürer as well as some startling children's book illustrations. It also extends to this century's ailurophiles, from Dr. Seuss's skinny troublemaker to Ronald Searle's chubbies to B. Kliban's none-too-slim smart alec. And the author manages to include a surprising amount of fact amid this quadruped fancy. Here he is, for example, on Cardinal Richelieu: "It is, perhaps, disappointing to learn that, as soon as his current set of kittens started to grow up and lose their playfulness, the careworn cardinal pensioned them off and sent for some new ones."
Cats in Books: A Celebration of Cat Illustration Through the Ages,Rodney Dale,Harry N Abrams,0810940450,Animals,Art,Art & Art Instruction,Cats - General,Cats in art,General,History - General,Illustration Of Books
Cheap Books:
- Conifers of California
- Cytokines in Veterinary Medicine (CABI Publishing)
- Edible and Useful Plants of Texas and the Southwest : A Practical Guide
- Edible Forest Gardens
- Edible Wild Plants: A North American Field Guide
- Fern Finder: A Guide to Native Ferns of Central and Northeastern United States and Eastern Canada (Nature Study Guides)
- Field Guide to Indiana Wildflowers (Wildflowers (Paperback))
- Florida Landscape Plants: Native and Exotic
- Flowering Plants of the Galapagos
- Flowers of Hawaii (Hawaii Pocket Guides) (Hawaii Pocket Guides)
Cheap Books
Recommended Books
- Australian Architecture Now
- HERMAN Classics, Volume I: SERIES:
- California Mortgage Loan Brokering and Lending
- The Economic Effects of Constitutions
- Cases in Collective Bargaining & Industrial Relations
- Biological Control: Measures of Success
- Blondes in Venetian Paintings, the Nine-Banded Armadillo, and Other Essays in Bi
- Boojums All the Way through : Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age
- Candle in the Window
- Colorful Introduction to the Anatomy of the Human Brain, A: A Brain and Psychology Coloring Book
- A Practical Guide to Breeding Your Freshwater Fish
- A Thriving Modernism: The Houses of Wendell Lovett and Arne Bystrom
- Beyond the Beachhead: The 29th Division in Normandy
- Bioinformatics: Methods and Protocols
- Basic Essentials Map & Compass, 2nd