Butterfly
Hardback
Exploring the World of Lepidoptera
Butterfly takes readers on a glorious journey across continents and cultures and explores the diversity and beauty of butterflies that have fascinated artists, thinkers, and designers throughout history. With more than 250 entries and glorious large-scale images for each work featured, this comprehensive visual survey showcases a huge variety of species of butterfly and moth, from the blue morpho and monarch to the death's-head hawkmoth.
Spanning a wide range of styles and media, the engaging characteristics of the butterfly - at each of its life stages - are explored in a carefully curated sequence, with works, regardless of period, thoughtfully paired to allow interesting and revealing juxtapositions between them. This book is at once a celebration and an intriguing overview of the worlds of butterflies and moths, as shown through art, history, science, and culture.Buy now!
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- ISBN: 9781838669379
- Author: Phaidon Editors
- Pub date: 30.09.25
- RRP: $90.00
- Format: Hardback
Author
Phaidon Editors
Advisors include: Dr. Giovanni Aloi, Dr. David G. James, Dr. Ivonne Garzon Orduna, Professor Naomi Pierce, Tamar van Riessen, Nathan Moss.
Additional texts by: Dr. Giovanni Aloi, Matthew Biggs, Anita Croy, Jen Elias, Diane Fortenberry, Carolyn Fry, Catherine Ingram, Rebecca Morrill, Hannah Silver, James Smith, David Trigg, and Martin Walters.Dr David G. James is Associate Professor of Entomology at Washington State University. He has written extensively on Lepidoptera, including The Book of Caterpillars (2017), a guide to over 600 species from around the world.Tamar van Riessen is a curator and writer specializing in seventeenth century genre painting, and worked as Junior Curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.Nathan Moss of Goldwell Flowers nursery is Director at Spencer House in London and is heavily involved in butterfly conservation in Kent.Other books by the author
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