Extinct Boids - Hardcover

Steadman, Ralph; Levy, Ceri

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1408178621 ISBN 13: 9781408178621

Publisher: A&C Black, 2012

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When Ceri Levy asked Ralph Steadman to produce one piece of art representing an extinct bird for a recent exhibition, Ghosts of Gone Birds, Ralph said 'yes'. Then 'yes' again ... and again ... and again.

An astonishing 100 paintings later, Extinct Boids was born.

Ralph got carried away by the birds, taking Ceri with him ... this book details the discoveries they made on their travels through the savage seas of extinction. After stumbling on the previously hidden Toadstool Island, where the extinct birds of the world live on in secretive harmony, the duo spent nearly a year in close proximity to a host of fantastical avian creatures.

Ralph documents them all in this series of remarkable paintings, featuring unique interpretations of well-known birds such as the Great Auk, Passenger Pigeon and Dodo, along with less familiar members of the feathersome firmament - Snail-eating Coua, for example, or the Red-moustached Fruit Dove - and a variety of bizarre beasts including the Gob Swallow, the Long-legged Shortwing and the Needless Smut. All are captured in a riot of expression and colour, with a slice of trademark Steadman humour.

Based on emails, diary entries and phone conversations, Ceri's accompanying text provides a running commentary, detailing the unfolding madness behind the creation of each piece in Ralph's extraordinary work. Things got tough as the pair discovered just how many amazing birds have been lost from our world forever.

'But,' as Ralph said 'it did, after all, make a nice change from drawing politicians'.

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Product Description:

When asked by film-maker Ceri Levy to produce one drawing representing an extinct bird, Ralph Steadman got somewhat carried away. Along with the genuinely extinct species such as the Auk, Dodo, Rodrigues Solitaire etc, there are Steadman 'boids' that would have been hunted to extinction - like the Jamaican Red Macaw - had they ever existed. Altogether, there are 100 boids, accompanied by a commentary on their creation and notes on their extinction. In the words of Ceri Levy: 'such beautiful chaos'.

Review:

Not since Adam named the beasts ... has anyone so enriched the language of ornithology as Mr. Steadman and his co-author, Ceri Levy, in Extinct Boids --New York Times

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