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"A magnificent revelation of the great French Vellum collection of Natural History art: the 'King's Collection'... featuring high-fidelity photo reproductions of the original Gouache paintings by the absolute masters of this genre: Nicolas Robert, Nicolas Maréchal,l, Jean-Charles Werner, A.J.B. Vaillant & Nicolas Huet, in particular. Best of all, this massive, >700-page book, with a gorgeous, cloth-topped/bottomed slipcase, is a huge 12" x 16", allowing for many works to be published at full size."

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"This updated edition renewed my love for the 'Pancha Tantra', Ford's epic-in-paintings, telling the story of mankind's relationship with the animal kingdom via giant-sized watercolors, taking on the style of Audubon's plein-air field studies, but using Symbolist imagery & Surrealist absurdities... with stylistic diversions that are always era-appropriate. It would be #1, but it's topped too many of my lists already. What's remarkable is how obvious it seems that 'Pancha Tantra' - the massive book he's been updating for a decade, and will continue updating with every new series of paintings - is his magnum opus... the art object/monograph that promises to grow deeper & richer as Ford continues to expand his visionary subject into terra incognita."

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"This was the 2015 revised edition, shrinking down from the XL, 12"x15" format to 10"x13", but upping the page-count with another 40+ new paintings."

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"The original 2010 XL Edition."

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"A 2015 exhibition catalog for Ford's show at the Musee de la Chasse..."

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"Katrina Van Grouw is fucking genius: a prodigiously auto-didactic lay scientist & a brilliant fine artist. Like Walton Ford's 'Pancha Tantra', Van Grouw's 'Unnatural Selection' is a multi-faceted art monograph that transcends its labels. It's a profusely illustrated treatise on what the last few millennia of selective breeding in the populations of domesticated species can demonstrate about evolutionary biology. It's also a profusely annotated monograph on the natural history art of Katrina Van Grouw, published by Princeton University Press. Regardless what version you're interested in owning, you shan't be disappointed*.
*[If you do acquire this beautiful book, & somehow decide it's not worth the cover price (her last monograph, 'The Unfeathered Bird' quickly went out of print, & the price went stratospheric), you're not someone I want to know. Fuck you & your shitty taste in everything.]"

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"Another massive, beautifully produced XXL Taschen hardcover, this time celebrating a lesser-known art luminary in Ernst Haeckel, the ground-breaking micro-biologist whose engravings of the geometrically complex & amazingly symmetrical forms of the Radiolarian micro-organisms, as well as his later monograph 'Art-Forms in Nature', a fusion of art & science employing 'comparative morphology', would astonish readers throughout the second half of the 19th Century."

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"Unnatural History Art of the very bestest kind. Species does vicious war with genus, & no family, order or class is safe, threatening the very phylums that hold our kingdom together. Linnaeus would be overjoyed."

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