Research Catalog

Title

Paleoart : visions of the prehistoric past / Zoë Lescaze ; with a preface by Walton Ford ; directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen.

Author

Lescaze, Zoë

Publication

• Köln : Taschen, [2017]
• ©2017

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Details

Additional Authors

• Ford, Walton, 1960-
• Taschen, Benedikt

Description

289 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 39 cm

Summary

"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

• 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
• Art and science
• Fossils in art
• Paleoart
• Paleontological illustration
• Prehistoric animals in art
• Prehistoric peoples in art

Genre/Form

• History.
• Pictorial works.
• Illustrated works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-289).

Language (note)

• Text in English, French and German.

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.

Call Number

JQG 19-412

ISBN

• 9783836555111
• 3836555115

OCLC

967559903

Author

Lescaze, Zoë, author.

Title

Paleoart : visions of the prehistoric past / Zoë Lescaze ; with a preface by Walton Ford ; directed and produced by Benedikt Taschen.

Publisher

Köln : Taschen, [2017]

Copyright Date

©2017

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-289).

Language

Text in English, French and German.

Added Author

Ford, Walton, 1960- writer of preface.

Taschen, Benedikt, editor.

Research Call Number

JQG 19-412