Paleoart
Subtitle: visions of the prehistoric past
By: Zoë Lescaze ; with a preface by Walton Ford ; directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen
Contributors: Ford, Walton, 1960- writer of preface; Taschen, Benedikt, editor
Publisher: Taschen; TASCHEN
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9783836555111
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Paleontological illustration; Animal painters; Prehistoric animals in art; Fossils in art; Prehistoric peoples in art; Paleoart; Natural history illustrators; Pictorial works; History
Description: "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." --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-289).
Table of contents: title: Preface: Twofold time machine; title: Introduction: The art of raising the dead; title: Cataclysm and conquest; title: Paleoart to the people; title: The bone wars; title: Of ancient wings and art nouveau; title: Innocence and experience; title: The savage brilliance of Zdeněk Burian; title: The return of English paleoart; title: Mammoths and monsters of Moscow; title: Conclusion: Close to the bone.