Broken heart, in a heartbeat, bottom of one’s heart, half hearted, change of heart, heart is in the right place, heart of stone, heart of gold, heavy heart, lose one’s heart, young at heart… It would be difficult to think of another part of any anatomy that figures so largely as the heart.
Back in 2013 when I first opened a copy of Katrina van Grouw’s then newly published “The Unfeathered Bird,” I was astonished by what I beheld. Never before had I seen any artist put such superb artistic detail into not only the physical structure of anatomical illustrations but into the manner in which they were depicted.
Although I’ve only had a copy on my desk for less than twenty-four hours from the time of this entry, I can already tell that Katrina van Grouw’s new book The Unfeathered Bird from Princeton University Press is likely to be one of the most desired books on gift lists this holiday season. This exquisitely […]