With humor, style, and grace, he shows how our view of the world is often, and remarkably, through the experience of birds. The Thing with Feathers explores the astonishing homing abilities of pigeons, the good deeds of fairy-wrens, the influential flocking abilities of starlings, the deft artistry of bowerbirds, the extraordinary memories of nutcrackers, the lifelong loves of albatrosses, and other mysteries-revealing why birds do what they do, and offering a glimpse into our own nature.ĭrawing deep from personal experience, cutting-edge science, and colorful history, Noah Strycker spins captivating stories about the birds in our midst and shares the startlingly intimate coexistence of birds and humans. As we learn more about the secrets of bird life, we are unlocking fascinating insights into memory, relationships, game theory, and the nature of intelligence itself. The Thing with Feathers: A Bird Book Review by Lau.Birds are highly intelligent animals, yet their intelligence is dramatically different from our own and has been little understood.As such, I'd say people can actually and with a fair amount of objectivity judge what is art and what is good art. The more we know about the difficulty and complexity of an art, the more we can judge it and appreciate it, it has an expanded capacity to be beautiful to be great, to be fine, and we judge it by its fulfillment of this capacity. There should be a certain accounting for taste, of course, but also a recognition of the know-how, the skill and complexity involved in a work of art.
However, a poorly made car, table, or pair of binoculars would not register with us as beautiful, both because it lacks craft and because we may additionally find it aesthetically unappealing. We derive pleasure from recognizing the craft, and also purely from beholding it, from its aesthetic. This craftsmanship is one factor that enters into the estimation of a thing's beauty. We can call many things beautiful, like a car or a table or a pair of binoculars can be beautiful because they are well and skillfully made.
I'd quibble that the pleasure we get when enjoying a work of art comes from it being, by some general estimation, beautiful, but there is more to a work of art than that.
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