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Paleoart : visions of the prehistoric past

Title
  1. Paleoart : visions of the prehistoric past / Zoë Lescaze ; with a preface by Walton Ford ; directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen.
Published by
  1. Köln : Taschen, [2017]
  2. ©2017
Author
  1. Lescaze, Zoë

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Additional authors
  1. Ford, Walton, 1960-
  2. Taschen, Benedikt
Description
  1. 289 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 39 cm
Summary
  1. "It was 1830 when English scientist Henry De la Beche painted the first piece of paleoart, a dazzling, deliciously macabre vision of prehistoric reptiles battling underwater dinosaurs, woolly mammoths, cavemen, and other creatures, shaping our understanding of the primeval past through their exhilarating images. In this unprecedented new book, writer Zoë Lescaze and artist Walton Ford present the astonishing history of peleoart from 1830-1990. These are not cave paintings produced thousands of years ago, but modern visions of prehistory: stunning paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures, mosaics, and murals that mingle scientific fact with unbridled fantasy. The collection provides an in-depth look at this neglected niche of art history and shows how the artists charged with imagining extinct creatures often projected their own aesthetic whims onto prehistory, rendering the primordial past with dashes of Romanticism, Impressionism, Fauvism, and Art Nouveau, among other influences." --
Subject
  1. Paleoart
  2. Prehistoric animals in art
  3. Paleontological illustration
  4. Fossils in art > History
  5. Natural history illustrators
  6. History
  7. Animal painters
  8. Pictorial works
  9. Paleoart > History
  10. Prehistoric animals in art > Pictorial works
  11. Prehistoric animals in art > History
  12. Paleontological illustration > History
  13. Paleoart > Pictorial works
  14. Art and science > History
  15. Illustrated works
  16. Prehistoric peoples in art > Pictorial works
  17. Prehistoric peoples in art > History
  18. Fossils in art > Pictorial works
Genre/Form
  1. History.
  2. Pictorial works.
  3. Illustrated works.
Contents
  1. Preface : twofold time machine -- Introduction : the art of raising the dead -- Cataclysm and conquest -- Paleoart to the people -- The bone wars -- Of ancient wings and art nouveau -- Innocence and experience -- The savage brilliance of Zdeněk Burian -- The return of English paleoart -- Mammoths and monsters of Moscow -- Conclusion : close to the bone.
Call number
  1. JQG 19-412
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-289).
Language (note)
  1. Text in English, French and German.
Author
  1. Lescaze, Zoë, author.
Title
  1. Paleoart : visions of the prehistoric past / Zoë Lescaze ; with a preface by Walton Ford ; directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen.
Publisher
  1. Köln : Taschen, [2017]
Copyright date
  1. ©2017
Type of content
  1. text
  2. still image
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-289).
Language
  1. Text in English, French and German.
Added author
  1. Ford, Walton, 1960- writer of preface.
  2. Taschen, Benedikt, editor.
ISBN
  1. 9783836555111 (hardback)
  2. 3836555115 (hardback)
Research call number
  1. JQG 19-412
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