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| Beguiled by the Wild: The Art of Charley Harper | 
| Author: Charley Harper
Publisher: Flower Valley Press
Category: Book
List Price: $49.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 39790
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 132
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 11.6 x 11.3 x 0.9
ISBN: 0962054372
Dewey Decimal Number: 769.92
EAN: 9780962054372
ASIN: 0962054372
Publication Date: January 1995
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beguiled by the Wild: the art of charley harper November 5, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
Very prompt and in great shape! The book was packaged very well and arrived with no damage whatsoever.
Wild about Harper!!!! January 19, 2007
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
What a fabulous book. For anyone who is a fan of this imaginative, committed to animals, wildlife-graphic artist, you will love this. The print quality is wonderful and every painting Charley Harper has ever done is cataloged in brilliant, living color! Lucky me, I own 4 Harpers - but feel like I own them all with this book.
Bequiled by the Wild: The Art of Charley Harper January 13, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Book was purchased as a gift. Recipient was extremely happywith it.
Great art book August 10, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Wonderful book showing many of Harper's prints as well as a paragraph about each written by him.
A Delightful Mixture of Art, Science, and Humor August 10, 2001
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
Beguiled by the Wild is a complete collection of limited edition prints by wildlife artist Charley Harper that spans three decades of his career. The captions printed in the book are the original versions that were issued with each print. The prints have long been sold out and this book represents the only published collection of his work. A rare self-interview and introduction by Roger Caras are the only additional text. Each page brings to life an example of Charley's unique ability to combine humor, art, and science. Readers will be hard-pressed to flip through the pages of this coffee table book without stopping at almost every page to learn the message inherent with each piece. Charley's unusual style, which he calls "minimal realism", catches the eye and draws a smile. Often a maze of bright colors and geometric shapes dominates the scene making an initial interpretation puzzling. Reading the caption usually provides insight into the biology of selected insects, birds and mammals, which is often whimsical and always factual. "Armadittos", for example, depicts and inverted armadillo mother suckling a line of four pups in a circle of pine needles. The caption describes how armadillos always reproduce with four genetically identical quaruplets of the same sex (and they live in pine forests of the southern states). Similary, "Jesus Bugs" depicts a group of water strider insects with large circles surrounding each of their six feet, which also form circular shadows under the water. Only an entomologist would know that these circles represent depressions on the water surface caused by minute foot hairs that keep the insects from sinking. This artist has attracted a large audience of amateur and professional biologists who should get their hands on a copy of this book before it too goes out of print.
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Wildlife, nature and the Environment
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