中文简介：

艺术作为自然科学：华丽的动植物绘画，来自畅销书《艺术的艺术》的作者

备受欢迎的获奖艺术家和作家安妮塔·阿尔伯斯（Anita Albus，生于1942年）用她自己制作的彩色颜料创造了详细的植物和动物绘画。阿尔伯斯的灵感来自早期绘画大师的静物画，但她还是在当代的领域内运作，处于细致的自然研究、创造性工作和高超工艺的交叉点。她在2000年出版了知名的《艺术的艺术》，表面上是一部关于15至17世纪油彩画的诞生和演变的历史，实际是她将艺术视为研究和科学的代名词的愿景宣言；她的艺术就是表达了这种愿景。

2016年，基尔美术馆通过卡尔-瓦尔特·百年灵和夏洛特·百年灵基金会购买了她的作品集，并出版了相应的专著《观看的艺术》。这本迷人的新版书邀请读者对阿尔伯斯温柔的、严格渲染的艺术研究进行一次发现之旅。

英文简介：

Art as natural science: gorgeous paintings of plants and animals, from the author of the bestselling The Art of Arts

The popular award-winning artist and writer Anita Albus (born 1942) creates detailed images of plants and animals using color pigments that she makes herself. Inspired by the still lifes of the Old Masters, Albus nonetheless operates within the realm of the contemporary, at the intersection of meticulous nature research, creative work and high craftsmanship. Her famous 2000 publication, The Art of Arts (Norton), ostensibly a history of the birth and evolution of trompe-l'oeil painting in oils in the 15th to 17th centuries, is a manifesto for her vision of art as synonymous with research and with science; her art is the expression of this vision.

In 2016, Kunsthalle Kiel purchased a collection of her works through the Karl-Walter Breitling und Charlotte Breitling-Stiftung, and published the accompanying monograph The Art of Seeing. This enchanting new edition of that (long unavailable) survey volume invites the reader on a discovery tour of Albus' tender, scrupulously rendered artistic research.