Paleoart
Visions of the Prehistoric Past
Köln : Taschen, [2017]
Format: Book
Description: 289 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 39 cm
"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 exhilirating images. In this unprededented 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 asthetic whims onto prehistory, rendering the primordial past with dashes of Romanticism, Impressionism, Fauvism, and Art Nouveau, among other influences."-- Book jacket.
Contents:
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.
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 Zden|ek Burian -- The return of English paleoart -- Mammoths and monsters of Moscow -- Conclusion: Close to the bone.
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 Zden|ek Burian -- The return of English paleoart -- Mammoths and monsters of Moscow -- Conclusion: Close to the bone.
Subjects:
Paleoart -- History.
Paleoart -- Pictorial works.
Prehistoric animals in art -- History.
Prehistoric animals in art -- Pictorial works.
Prehistoric peoples in art -- History.
Prehistoric peoples in art -- Pictorial works.
Fossils in art -- History.
Fossils in art -- Pictorial works.
Animal painters.
Natural history illustrators.
Paleontological illustration -- History.
Art and science -- History.
Paleoart -- History.
Paleoart -- Pictorial works.
Prehistoric animals in art -- History.
Prehistoric animals in art -- Pictorial works.
Prehistoric peoples in art -- History.
Prehistoric peoples in art -- Pictorial works.
Fossils in art -- History.
Fossils in art -- Pictorial works.
Animal painters.
Natural history illustrators.
Paleontological illustration -- History.
Art and science -- History.
ISBN:
3836555115
Availability | |||
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
ART History Prehist Les | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Nonfiction | Out (Due: 5/24/2024) |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-289).