In paintings and words, this book portrays a year in the life of Oronsay, a remote Hebridean island that is farmed by the RSPB for the benefit of wildlife. Jane Smith describes her encounters with birds and animals, both wild and domesticated, and th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Mar-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789048559091)
Looking into animals and plants from the perspective of visual culture studies; Critical reevaluation of the interaction between text and image in shaping notions of animals and plants; Foregrounding the transformation of ideas in the early modern pe...Loe edasi...
Intersecting art, science and the scenographic mise-en-scène, this book provides a new approach to anatomical drawing, viewed through the contemporary lens of scenographic theory. Sue Field traces the evolution of anatomical drawing from...Loe edasi...
Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880) addresses the rapidly growing early modern knowledge about fish and other aquatic animals in its interaction with visual and literary culture. It also explores the transnational exchange of ichthyological kno...Loe edasi...
Scottish zoologist DArcy Wentworth Thompsons visionary ideas in On Growth and Form continue to evolve a century after its publication, aligning it with current developments in art and science. Practitioners, theorists, and historians from...Loe edasi...
This book examines the works of major artists between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as important barometers of individual and collective values toward non-human life. Once viewed as merely representational, these works can also be read as...Loe edasi...
Bernardo Urbani, Dionisios Youlatos, Andrzej T. Antczak
Sari: Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Aug-2022, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108487337)
This edited volume is the first compendium of archaeoprimatological studies. Written by a culturally diverse group of scholars, it explores the relationships between humans and nonhuman primates from deep in time to more recent historical times. It w...Loe edasi...
Showcases stunning artwork and stories of Australian animals that have been lost to extinction.Australia is home to an incredible diversity of native animals. While Australian animals are among the most unique in the world, they are also amon...Loe edasi...
This book examines the works of major artists between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as important barometers of individual and collective values toward non-human life. Once viewed as merely representational, these works can also be read as...Loe edasi...
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Scottish zoologist DArcy Wentworth Thompsons visionary ideas in On Growth and Form continue to evolve a century after its publication, aligning it with current developments in art and science. Practitioners, theorists, and historians from...Loe edasi...
This book is the most thorough exploration to date of the many ways in which a wild creature has been absorbed, reimagined and represented across the ages in all of the major art forms. The authors consider not only how the identity of sharks in t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Jun-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Deutscher Kunstverlag, ISBN-13: 9783422981171)
Von den Dinosauriern sind nur einige wenige versteinerte Knochen und Fußspuren erhalten. Dennoch sieht man sie quicklebendig im Kinderzimmer und auf der Kinoleinwand alle wissen scheinbar, wie sie ausgesehen haben. Woher kommen diese Bilder der Urz...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2019, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Alaska Press, ISBN-13: 9781602233782)
Join Julia Tinker—avid explorer, angler, and artist—in her travels as she recounts her multi-year journey captaining her boat through the beautiful waters surrounding Ketchikan and Prince of Wales. Her mission is to delve into the di...Loe edasi...
This book is the most thorough exploration to-date of the many ways in which a wild creature has been absorbed, reimagined and represented across the ages in all of the major art forms. It comprises the work of four international experts currently...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jan-2018, Hardback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231180702)
Giovanni Aloi offers a comprehensive mapping of the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of taxidermy in contemporary art. Speculative Taxidermy contextualizes the resilient presence of animal skin, bones, and feathers in g...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jan-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231180719)
Giovanni Aloi maps the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of taxidermy in contemporary art. Speculative Taxidermy contextualizes the resilient presence of animal skin, bones, and feathers in gallery spaces, films, and fas...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Mar-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226447124)
As children, our first encounters with the world’s animals do not arise during expeditions through faraway jungles or on perilous mountain treks. Instead, we meet these creatures between the pages of a book, on the floor of an obliging library....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jan-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Harvard University Press, ISBN-13: 9780674737129)
Discusses how scientific knowledge and natural history was changed over a period of three hundred years, describing how a rhinoceros brought to Europe in 1515 was viewed compared to the reception of fossilized skeleton of a Megatherium in 1789....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Nov-2015, Hardback, Kirjastus: Design Studio Press, ISBN-13: 9781624650291)
What is creature design? We all have a notion—mostly consisting of evocative images of otherworldly beings galloping, swimming, flying, and often attacking the hero of an epic film or story. But what makes a creature believable? In the follow-up to h...Loe edasi...
William Hogarth, one of Englands foremost artists, made extensive use of animal images - as hybrids, edibles, companions, emblems of satire and objects of cruelty. Hogarths Art of Animal Cruelty: Satire, Suffering and Pictorial Propaganda offe...Loe edasi...
