{"product_id":"birds-9789493416512","title":"Birds","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSimon Schama explores our enduring fascination with birds\u003c\/em\u003e in a visually stunning art book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNo other creatures have fixed themselves so obsessively and ubiquitously in our restless, earth-stuck imagination as birds... the fixation painted, imprinted, sculpted, filmed in our art.\u003c\/em\u003e - Simon Schama\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom Icarus to Peter Pan, who hasn't dreamt of flying? Birds are the embodiment of our desires, fears, and fantasies. In this publication, internationally renowned art historian Simon Schama and Mauritshuis director Martine Gosselink explore the fascinating relationship between humans and birds through art, literature, and cultural history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCarel Fabritius's world-famous Goldfinch, Picasso's Dove, Brancusi's Bird in Space, an Egyptian falcon mummy, a feather dress by Iris van Herpen: this book is a visual and literary journey through centuries of bird imagery. The icing on the cake is a wonderful anthology of bird stories from, among other works, The Epic of Gilgamesh and One Thousand and One Nights, as well as bird poems by such writers as Rabindranath Tagore, Ted Hughes, Bob Marley, and Rumi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith contributions by Simon Schama, Martine Gosselink, Laura Cumming, Stefan Hertmans, Philip Hoare, Eva Meijer, and Adrienne Quarles van Ufford.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is published on the occasion of the exhibition \u003cem\u003eBIRDS\u003c\/em\u003e - Curated by The Goldfinch \u0026amp; Simon Schama in Mauritshuis, The Hague, from 12 February to 7 June 2026.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67708767764716,"sku":"9789493416512","price":69.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9789493416512-birds-1.jpg?v=1791835922","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/birds-9789493416512","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}