{"product_id":"the-art-of-biodiversity-eric-himmel-9798228929333","title":"The Art of Biodiversity: Artists \u0026 Naturalists, 1700-1900","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Biodiversity\u003c\/i\u003e recounts key chapters in the history of scientific nature art. 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. This art appeared in vividly illustrated books that offered readers a vastly expanded vision of nature. \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Biodiversity\u003c\/i\u003e introduces the listener to the extraordinary men and women who created these books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Art of Biodiversity\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eric Himmel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798228929333\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Tantor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e MP3 CD","brand":"Eric Himmel","offers":[{"title":"MP3 CD","offer_id":49084118532351,"sku":"9798228929333","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-art-of-biodiversity-eric-himmel-9798228929333","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}