Strange and wonderful : exotic flora and fauna in image and imagination /
Foster, Karen Polinger,1950-author.
"Ever since the creation of the world's first zoological and botanical gardens 5,000 years ago, people have collected, displayed, and depicted animals and plants from lands far beyond their everyday experience. Strange and Wonderful offers a richly illustrated journey across millennia and around the globe to explore the root of this phenomenon in art"--
"Ever since the creation of the world's first zoological and botanical gardens 5,000 years ago, people have collected, displayed, and depicted animals and plants from lands far beyond their everyday experience. Strange and Wonderful offers a richly illustrated journey across millennia and around the globe to explore the root of this phenomenon in art"--
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The cradle of exotica -- Novelties on the Nile -- Knowing the unknown -- Exotica and Europe -- True and proper pictures -- Crossing the Atlantic.
Animals in art.
Plants in art.
Exoticism in art.
New and old in art.
Animals in art.
Exoticism in art.
New and old in art.
Plants in art.