Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art

by Hudson River Museum

Strut: The Peacock and Beauty in Art explores our fascination with that most glamorous of birds.

The peacock, strutting in its sapphire-blue and emerald-green plumage, symbolizes all things vain and beautiful in centuries of painting and sculpture, in books, and on clothes that swirl and shine like the iridescent bird itself.

Intrigued by the exotic art of Asia that prized and portrayed the peacock and its trail of an emblazoned train...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 094365145X
• ISBN13: 9780943651453
• Release Date: October 2014
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 2.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.4" x 12.8"