Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (April 14, 2015)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1419715615
ISBN-13: 978-1419715617
Product Dimensions: 10 x 1.2 x 12 inches
Christopher Marley’s art expresses his passionate engagement with the beautiful forms of nature. Beginning with insects and moving on to aquatic life, reptiles, birds, plants, and minerals, Marley has used his skills as a designer, conservator, taxidermist, and environmentally responsible collector to make images and mosaics that produce strong, positive emotional responses in viewers. Marley has a brilliant eye for color and pattern in different natural objects, and he expertly captures the deep relationships among them. Biophilia (literally, “love of living things”) is a must-have for nature lovers, designers, artists, craftspeople, and anyone looking for visual inspiration in the arts.
艺术家克里斯托弗.马力的艺术表达形式是对于自然之美的热情。从昆虫到水生动物，爬行类，鸟类，植物与矿物，作为设计师，环境保护者，标本学家，环境负责收藏家，马力用他的技巧制作了相关的图片与马赛克创作出了超强的，富有生机的视觉感受。马力对于色彩与形状有个独到的见解，他捕捉到了不同的自然生物之间的内在联系。Biophilia意为生物之恋，是设计师，自然爱好者，艺术家，工艺家还有视觉艺术家的好选择。
Christopher Marley is an artist and designer who uses natural artifacts as his medium of expression. To create this work, he collects specimens in an environmentally responsible manner from a worldwide network of people who share his passion for nature. His popular first book, Pheromone (2008), focused on his artwork with insects. He lives and works in Oregon.
自然多彩多样，丰富无限，而艺术家的多才多艺与对自然的深刻见解让他装做出了关于自然的美丽赞图。
“Christopher Marley’s Biophilia is much more than a sumptuous coffee-table pleasure. It is also an elegant manifesto meant to nudge us off our couches and easy chairs and out the door.”
(The New York Times Science Times)
“Nature can seem messy, chaotic, even frightening, but in Christopher Marley’s world, it’s a bounty of useable materials that can be infinitely organized and aestheticized.”
(Slate)
“While (Christopher Marley’s) work is motivated by aesthetics, many of the artist’s mosaics tell scientific stories, particularly those that include organisms that are genetically related but live in different parts of the world. . . . He painstakingly arranges according to color to highlight their striking visual relationships.”
(Smithsonian.com)
“Even the hard categorizations and taxonomies of a natural history museum don’t hide the beauty of the world. . . . But rarely do you get to see those specimens side by side. . . . Marley chooses his juxtapositions carefully to emphasize the full spectrum of color displayed—and replicated—in the natural world. His chosen flora and fauna bring out each others’ best hues.”
(Wired.com)
“As an artist, [Christopher] Marley offers a perspective on nature that’s more corporeal than conceptual. It manifests itself in clean lines and axes—orbiting specimens that have passed from life to deities of art.”
(Audubon.org)
