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Title: Birds by ROBERT BATEMAN ISBN: 0-375-42182-3 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (4 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Nice, but disappointing
Comment: Robert Bateman is one of my favorite wildlife artist, and his first two books are absolutely outstanding. But after that, my sense is that the quality of his work has been going down, while the prices of his paintings (and maybe because of this) have been going up. This book is at the very bottom of his (in my opinion) downward trend. A very few of the paintings you will find in this book are great, but most are unimpressive, and some are outright ugly, clearly done in a rush. You will find very few of those beautiful masterpieces in which the nature surrounding the animal is as important as (sometimes more than) the animal itself. This is an OK book, but it's been a great disappointment, especially because I remember the awe that his previous work inspired me. If you really have to purchase ONE recent book on wildlife art my advice is: buy Jonsson's "Birds and light", which in my opinion is as outstanding as the earlier Bateman (but his style is completely different).
Rating: 4
Summary: Bateman Soars
Comment: Robert Bateman's Birds exquisite visual imagery is brought to life by the richness of narratives that evoke the senses. One experiences the subjects from an armchair with almost the authenticity of a field sighting. As a Bateman fan, I continue to be impressed by his extraordinarily gifted and sensitive depictions of our natural world.
Rating: 4
Summary: Nice but Disappointing
Comment: Robert Bateman is one of my favorite wildlife artist, and his first two books are absolutely outstanding. But after that, my sense is that the quality of his work has been going down, while the prices of his paintings (and maybe because of this) have been going up. This book is at the very bottom of his (in my opinion) downward trend. A very few of the paintings you will find in this book are great, but most are unimpressive, and some are outright ugly, clearly done in a rush. You will find very few of those beautiful masterpieces in which the nature surrounding the animal is as important as (sometimes more than) the animal itself. This is an OK book, but it's been a great disappointment, especially because I remember the awe that his previous work inspired me. If you really have to purchase ONE recent book on wildlife art my advice is: buy Jonsson's "Birds and light", which in my opinion is as outstanding as the earlier Bateman (but his style is completely different).
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Title: The Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes by Peter Matthiessen, Robert Bateman ISBN: 0865476578 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 16 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Safari by Robert Bateman ISBN: 0316082651 Publisher: Little Brown & Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Robert Bateman: Natural Worlds by Robert Bateman, Rick Archbold ISBN: 068482986X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $60.00 |
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Title: Art of Robert Bateman by Robert Bateman ISBN: 0517087839 Publisher: Crescent Books Pub. Date: 17 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $29.99 |
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Title: Wildlife the Nature Paintings of Carl Brenders by Carl Brenders ISBN: 0810939770 Publisher: Harry N. Abrams Pub. Date: 12 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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