Libel Arts: Birds and Words

If you are a lover of Charles Harper and his abstract, geometrical-take on nature and birds, the recently published limited edition Charles Harper’s Birds and Words, published by Ammo Books, is right up your alley…or tree trunk, or beak, or what have you.

As a re-imagining of the original Birds and Words, the limited edition version comes in a cloth-bound hardcover with a matching fabric-wrapped clamshell box. You can get the book in a choice of four colors, and each comes with its own matching silkscreen print. The book is beautiful, and Harper’s art is brilliantly reproduced.

The serigraphs are accompanied by Harper’s own words describing the scene captured in his art. While reading through the pages of the book, one gets a sense of Harper’s humor, playfulness, astute observational skills and his ecologically-minded world view. The book is just as much a celebration of wildlife as it is a eulogy to those creatures who have sadly vanished from the earth.

For such a wonderful book, you know you’re gonna have to pay…100 bucks to be exact. However, with 152 pages, a silkscreen print and clamshell box, the limited edition is well worth it. And if you buy a copy, at least you can take comfort that there is only 999 other copies out there.

Comments

[connie]

i pick blue.

[Jenn]

I'll take the pink. Pink pink i stink.