LARS JONSSON'S BIRDS: PAINTINGS FROM A NEAR HORIZON. Edited by Peter A. Reimers and Mamoun Fansa.

2008 1st edition. Folio (244 x 305mm). Pp192. Colour paintings and sketches throughout, colour photographs, b/w sketches. Blue boards, spine titled in silver, silver gilt bird motif to upper board.

This book is a new edition of Lars Jonsson's exhibition catalogue "Where Earth and Heaven Touch", Publications from the State Museum of Nature and Mankind, No.59, "Published in conjunction with the first exhibition of Lars Jonsson's work in the Federal Republic of Germany July 2008." The editors were Peter A. Reimers and Mamoun Fansa who go unacknowledged in this edition, except in the small-print of the title-page verso. This is an interesting account of the work of the artist, together with superb reproductions of Jonsson's paintings and sketches. Chapters include: Foreword by the artist; Lars Jonsson: The Beauty of Nature, by Adam Duncan Harris; About Lars Jonsson, by Kent Ullberg; On the subject of beauty, by Frederik Sjoberg; Early works; Sketchbooks; Watercolours; Oil paintings; Ornithological projects; Lithographs; Chronology; Exhibitions; Bibliography.