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Title

Paleoimagery : the evolution of dinosaurs in art / Allen A. Debus and Diane E. Debus ; foreword by Donald F. Glut.

Author

Debus, Allen A.

Publication

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers, c2002.

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Additional Authors

Debus, Diane E.

Description

viii, 285 p. : ill.; 29 cm.

Summary

"Other than seeing them in popular movies such as Jurassic Park, how do people today know what dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals looked like? Only their fossils remain, but thanks to paleoartists most people have a good idea of what these creatures looked like. The world of paleoart and its artists are the subject of this richly illustrated work. It explores themes in the depiction of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, paleoart's history and speculative nature and its effect on scientists' impressions of prehistoric animals. Also explored are such topics as the careers of several paleoartists, including Georges Cuvier, Gideon Mantell, John Martin, Neave Parker, Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins and Charles R. Knight, the depiction of scientific ideas about dinosaurs and prehistoric animals on canvas and in sculpture, the purpose and process of restoring them in museums, the significance of certain restorations and images, and the development of paleoart in America."--Jacket.

Subject

• Dinosaurs in art
• Paleoart > History

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical notes and bibliography (p. 243-282) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Donald F. Glut -- Dinosaurs and Evolution--Conflated Imagery -- Kronosaurus--An Imaginary Sea Monster That Got Away -- Grandmasters of the Paleoartists' Hall of Fame -- John Martin and the Element of Paleoart Fantasy -- Henry Ward's Last Great Siberian Mammoth -- Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins--A Modern Pygmalion -- A Mythic Place in Time--Spirit in the Knight -- Paleoart--Search Image and Theory -- Verne's Paleontological Journey -- Time for Dinosaurs -- Plated Puzzle -- America's Paleoart Reformation -- A Tertiary Primer -- Othenio Abel--Artistic Founder of Paleobiology -- Zdenek Burian's Global Visions of Prehistory -- The Ages of Zallinger -- Neave Parker's Prehistoric World -- Acanthopholis--a "Twilight Zone" Dinosaur -- Bully for Laelaps -- Tickled by Feathers -- Inside-Out Mastodon -- Louis Paul Jonas' Prehistoric Sculpturdermy -- Speculative Paleontology--Lessons in Reverse Paleontology -- Portraying Paleocatastrophe -- Tyrant Queen--Icon-o-saurus Rex -- The Great Dinosaur Race--Wisconsin's Dinosaurs -- Illuminating Fossils from the Dark Continent -- Hypsilophodon--a "Super" Dinosaur -- High Stakes Dinosaur--Las Vegas' Robotosaurs -- Ernie's Paleozoo -- Building Life-Sized Dinosaurs -- Those Incredible Shrinking Dinosaurs -- Joined at the Hip? -- The Big Sho- -- THUNDER in Their Footsteps -- Renaissance Dinosaurs.

ISBN

0786412224 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002007625

OCLC

• 49902865
• SCSB-10420537

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library