Birds: The Goldfinch, Birds, Art, and Us

Simon Schama explores our enduring fascination with birds in this visually stunning art book of iconic images.

“You lose the flight of the bird, and you lose the song of the bird, and you lose the world, really.” —Simon Schama, The New York Times

‘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

From Icarus to Peter Pan, who hasn’t dreamt...