{"product_id":"birds-the-goldfinch-birds-art-and-us","title":"Birds: The Goldfinch, Birds, Art, and Us","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eSimon Schama explores our enduring fascination with birds in this visually stunning art book of iconic images.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“You lose the flight of the bird, and you lose the song of the bird, and you lose the world, really.” —Simon Schama, \u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e‘No 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.’ – Simon Schama\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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 Gilgameshand One Thousand and One Nights, as well as bird poems by such writers as Rabindranath Tagore, Ted Hughes, Bob Marley and Rumi.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith contributions by Simon Schama, Martine Gosselink, Laura Cumming, Stefan Hertmans, Philip Hoare, Eva Meijer and Adrienne Quarles van Ufford.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is published on the occasion of the exhibition BIRDS – Curated by The Goldfinch \u0026amp; Simon Schamain Mauritshuis, The Hague from 12 February to 7 June 2026.ho’s ever been brought to their knees by change and found something sacred in the dust.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHannibal Publishers\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003eHardcover, 176 pages\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(179, 179, 179);\"\u003eISBN 9789493416512\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"SIMON \u0026 SCHUSTER","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48896538247403,"sku":"9789493416512","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0508\/1061\/files\/714iBVib0-L._SL1500.jpg?v=1781808330","url":"https:\/\/store.hammer.ucla.edu\/products\/birds-the-goldfinch-birds-art-and-us","provider":"Hammer Museum Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}