Discover information, advice, and prices for Paleoart Visions of the Prehistoric, priced at 516.97 $ : it belongs to the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
It was 1830 when an English scientist named Henry De la Beche painted the first piece of paleoart a dazzling deliciously macabre vision of prehistoric reptiles battling underwater Since then artists the world over have conjured up visions of dinosaurs woolly mammoths cavemen and other creatures shaping our understanding of the primeval past through their exhilarating imagesIn this unprecedented new book writer Zoë Lescaze and artist Walton Ford present the astonishing history of paleoart from 1830 to 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 indepth 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 Japonisme Fauvism and Art Nouveau among other influencesWith an incisive essay from Lescaze a preface by Ford four foldouts and dozens of details the book showcases a stunning collection of artworks culled from major natural history museums obscure archives and private collections and includes new photography of key works including Charles R Knights seminal paintings in Chicago and littleknown masterpieces such as A M Belashovs monumental mosaic in Moscow From the fearsome to the fantastical Paleoart is a celebration of prehistoric animals in art and a novel chance to understand our favorite extinct beasts through an art historical lens
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A lavish showcase of paleoartist Jay Matterness spectacular murals and sketchesFor half a century the artwork of Jay Matternes adorned the fossil halls of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History These treasured Matternes murals documenting mammal evolution over the past 56 million years and dioramas showing dinosaurs from the Mesozoic Era are significant works of one of the most influential paleoartists in history Simultaneously epic in size and scope and minutely detailed they also provide a window into the study and interpretation of vertebrate paleontology and paleoecology Visions of Lost Worlds presents these unparalleled works of art and also includes the sketches and drawings Matternes prepared as he planned the murals Known for his technical genius and eye for detail Matternes sketched from skeletons in museum collections and added muscle skin and fur to bring mammals and dinosaurs from prehistory to vivid life This book offers a close look at these works of art a peek inside the artists process and an examination of the works impact and legacy
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The peoples who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers largescale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools a money economy and elaborate rituals and ceremonies Yet as Peter Wells argues here the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was profoundly different from those of ancient Romes literate civilization and todays industrialized societies Drawing on startling new research in neuroscience and cognitive psychology Wells reconstructs how the peoples of preRoman Europe saw the world and their place in it He sheds new light on how they communicated their thoughts feelings and visual perceptions through the everyday tools they shaped the pottery and metal ornaments they decorated and the arrangements of objects they made in their ritual placesand how these forms and patterns in turn shaped their experience How Ancient Europeans Saw the World offers a completely new approach to the study of Bronze Age and Iron Age Europe and represents a major challenge to existing views about prehistoric cultures The book demonstrates why we cannot interpret the structures that Europes preRoman inhabitants built in the landscape the ways they arranged their settlements and burial sites or the complex patterning of their art on the basis of what these things look like to us Rather we must view these objects and visual patterns as they were meant to be seen by the ancient peoples who fashioned them
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Analyzes and compares the prehistoric rock paintings of Zimbabwe to show how the artists selected subjects and how the paintings were executed and discusses the conventions that determined the paintings styles and forms Reconstructs the significance and meaning of the paintings by looking at them in the context of the basic tenets of the Sen societies that still survive on the outskirts of the Kalahari Desert Includes bampw drawings and color photos of the paintings and their environment Annotation copyright Book News Inc Portland Or
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It was 1830 when an English scientist named Henry De la Beche painted the first piece of paleoart a dazzling deliciously macabre vision of prehistoric reptiles battling underwater Since then artists the world over have conjured up visions of dinosaurs woolly mammoths cavemen and other creatures shaping our understanding of the primeval past through their exhilarating imagesIn this unprecedented new book writer Zoë Lescaze and artist Walton Ford present the astonishing history of paleoart from 1830 to 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 indepth 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 Japonisme Fauvism and Art Nouveau among other influencesWith an incisive essay from Lescaze a preface by Ford four foldouts and dozens of details the book showcases a stunning collection of artworks culled from major natural history museums obscure archives and private collections and includes new photography of key works including Charles R Knights seminal paintings in Chicago and littleknown masterpieces such as A M Belashovs monumental mosaic in Moscow From the fearsome to the fantastical Paleoart is a celebration of prehistoric animals in art and a novel chance to understand our favorite extinct beasts through an art historical lens
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on The Palaeoartist s Handbook Recreating sold at 30.89 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
Extinct worlds live again in paleoart artworks of fossil animals plants and environments carefully reconstructed from paleontological and geological data Such artworks are widespread in popular culture appearing in documentaries museums books and magazines and inspiring depictions of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals in cinema This book outlines how fossil animals and environments can be reconstructed from their fossils explaining how paleoartists overcome gaps in fossil data and predict softtissue anatomies no longer present around fossil bones It goes on to show how science and art can meet to produce compelling interesting takes on ancient worlds and explores the goals and limitations of this popular but rarely discussed art genre
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Extinct worlds live again in paleoart artworks of fossil animals plants and environments carefully reconstructed from paleontological and geological data Such artworks are widespread in popular culture appearing in documentaries museums books and magazines and inspiring depictions of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals in cinema This book outlines how fossil animals and environments can be reconstructed from their fossils explaining how paleoartists overcome gaps in fossil data and predict softtissue anatomies no longer present around fossil bones It goes on to show how science and art can meet to produce compelling interesting takes on ancient worlds and explores the goals and limitations of this popular but rarely discussed art genre
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Visualizing the Sacred Cosmic Visions sold for 35.64 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
The prehistoric native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States shared a complex set of symbols and motifs that constituted one of the greatest artistic traditions of the preColumbian Americas Traditionally known as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex these artifacts of copper shell stone clay and wood were the subject of the groundbreaking 2007 book Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms Interpretations of Mississippian Iconography which presented a major reconstruction of the rituals cosmology ideology and political structures of the Mississippian peoplesVisualizing the Sacred advances the study of Mississippian iconography by delving into the regional variations within what is now known as the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere MIIS Bringing archaeological ethnographic ethnohistoric and iconographic perspectives to the analysis of Mississippian art contributors from several disciplines discuss variations in symbols and motifs among major sites and regions across a wide span of time and also consider what visual symbols reveal about elite status in diverse political environments These findings represent the first formal identification of style regions within the Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere and call for a new understanding of the MIIS as a network of localized yet interrelated religious systems that experienced both continuity and change over time
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Sacred Images A Vision of sold for 49.41 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
Sacred images A Vision of Native American Rock Art brings together the talents of four Utah wilderness photographers and the storytelling skills of its indigenous peoples to present the visionary power of Utah rock artnbsp Photographers Craig Law John Telford Tom Till and Philip Hyde reveal prehistoric and historic rock art images on boulders cliff faces and overhangs
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An exploration of one of Englands great ancient monuments the 360footlong chalk White Horse at UffingtonThe White Horse at Uffington is an icon of the English landscapea prehistoric nearly abstract figure 360 feet long carved into the green turf of a chalk hill Along with Stonehenge the Horse is widely regarded as one of the Wonders of BritainFor centuries antiquarians travelers and local people have speculated about the age of the Horse who created it and why Was it a memorial to King Alfred the Greats victory over the Danes an emblem of the first AngloSaxon settlers was the Horse an actor in an elaborate prehistoric ritual drawing the sun across the sky Archaeologist David Miles explores the rich history of the ancient white horse as well as the surrounding landscape in order to understand the people who have lived there since the end of the Ice Age As Miles tracks the possible origin of this English landmark he also illuminates how the White Horse has influenced countless artists poets and writers including Eric Ravilious John Betjeman and J R R TolkienThe White Horse is one of most remarkable monuments of England not least because it is still intact People have cared for it and curated it for centuries even millennia Ultimately Miles using an archaeological framework roots a myth for modern times in scientific findings 60 illustrations
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Sacred images A Vision of Native American Rock Art brings together the talents of four Utah wilderness photographers and the storytelling skills of its indigenous peoples to present the visionary power of Utah rock artnbsp Photographers Craig Law John Telford Tom Till and Philip Hyde reveal prehistoric and historic rock art images on boulders cliff faces and overhangs
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Emerging Visions of the Aesthetic sold for 101.25 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
This book is about aesthetic processes and play from the perspectives of psychologists philosophers and semiologists They explore the underlying processes from many viewpoints including the prehistoric roots of language and art the historical evolution of artistic literary and musical styles the structure of artworks from both gestalt and semiotic perspectives the biological and psychological processes underlying production and appreciation the appeal of sentimental art emotional responses to art and other aesthetic forms personality in relation to artistic style the testing and measurement of artrelated skills the relations between social life and literary understanding literature in relation to media as well as neurobiological developmental and individual growth perspectives on play activity
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An exploration of one of Englands great ancient monuments the 360footlong chalk White Horse at UffingtonThe White Horse at Uffington is an icon of the English landscapea prehistoric nearly abstract figure 360 feet long carved into the green turf of a chalk hill Along with Stonehenge the Horse is widely regarded as one of the Wonders of BritainFor centuries antiquarians travelers and local people have speculated about the age of the Horse who created it and why Was it a memorial to King Alfred the Greats victory over the Danes an emblem of the first AngloSaxon settlers was the Horse an actor in an elaborate prehistoric ritual drawing the sun across the sky Archaeologist David Miles explores the rich history of the ancient white horse as well as the surrounding landscape in order to understand the people who have lived there since the end of the Ice Age As Miles tracks the possible origin of this English landmark he also illuminates how the White Horse has influenced countless artists poets and writers including Eric Ravilious John Betjeman and J R R TolkienThe White Horse is one of most remarkable monuments of England not least because it is still intact People have cared for it and curated it for centuries even millennia Ultimately Miles using an archaeological framework roots a myth for modern times in scientific findings 60 illustrations
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Following a vision of a wolf a valiant dreamer leads a band of prehistoric people across the Bering Strait to settle in an unspoiled and unpopulated American continent
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The mysterious tally sticks of prehistoric peoples and the terrestrial maps used for trade exploration and warfare the perennial fascination with the motions of heavenly bodies and changed perspectives on the art and science of vision all are testament to a mathematics at the heart of history This visually stunning volume takes the reader on an illustrated tour of mathematics across cultures and civilizations bringing to life a world of important ideas andrarely supposedgreat intrigue and charm The development of mathematics can be seen in a wealth of images from the richly illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages to the deeply unsettling art of Dali and Duchamp from the austere beauty of Babylonian clay tablets to the delicate complexity of computergenerated pictures These images and many others are lavishly reproduced to accompany a text that travels from the dawn of Chinese and Indian civilizations to the scientific and digital revolutions of our day Including portraits of household names such as Kepler and Copernicus as well as lesserknown but equally compelling figures like Niels Henrik Abel and Leonhard Euler The Story of Mathematics is a rich amalgam of history biography and popular science Readers will come away understanding how and why mathematics evolved as it didof how it entered and remained close to the center of every area of human activity Explaining mathematical concepts without equations Richard Mankiewicz enables us to appreciate this essential intellectual occupation without doing the math
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Prehistoric beasts merge with nightmare visions of the future in this thrilling conclusion to the Z Rex trilogyReunited with the savage unpredictable TRex Zed fourteenyearold Adam must team up with some unlikely allies to battle against villainous scientists and their killer creations If they do not win the ultimate apocalypse will be unleashed upon humanity
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