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The Paper Zoo: 500 Years of Animals in Art, Sleigh, Charlotte, Very Good Book
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- ISBN
- 9780226447124
- Book Title
- Paper Zoo : 500 Years of Animals in Art
- Item Length
- 11 in
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Publication Year
- 2017
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Nature, Art
- Topic
- Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, Animals / General, History / General
- Item Width
- 9.5 in
- Item Weight
- 54.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 256 Pages
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For many, their first experience of the natural world is in the pages of books and in library collections--a Paper Zoo. This stunning book gathers together a wide range of beautiful nature illustrations from the British Library's collections, including manuscripts, prints and drawings, and rare printed books, and featuring items from all around the world. With striking images of butterflies, beetles, spiders, animals, shells, fish and birds, the pages bring readers into contact with some of the world's most renowned natural history illustrators, such as Audubon and Catesby, and on expeditions to discover the lesser known rare finds as well. The text traces the story of the art of natural history from the Renaissance through the great age of exploration to the 19th century, to demonstrate how the collaboration between the fields of art and science has rendered such exquisite forms. The plates, all taken from books, are organized into several themed sections, though not on strict taxonomic grounds, but rather on broader themes of exotic, native, domestic, and paradoxical (with reference to what the species were at that time-for what is native now may well once have been exotic).
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Publisher
University of Chicago Press
ISBN-10
022644712x
ISBN-13
9780226447124
eBay Product ID (ePID)
20038269966
Product Key Features
Book Title
Paper Zoo : 500 Years of Animals in Art
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Subjects & Themes / Plants & Animals, Animals / General, History / General
Publication Year
2017
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Nature, Art
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
11 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
9.5 in
Item Weight
54.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ql46.5.S545 2017
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What to Give: Design Books. . . . Before the Nature Channel, before camera safaris, even before Audubon, the only way to discover the beasts of foreign lands was through illustrations. In her scholarly and sprightly Paper Zoo , historian of science Sleigh tracks pictures of animals from medieval bestiaries to early twentieth-century school posters. Along the way she uncovers some fascinating stories, like that of Maria Sybilla Merian, who traveled to Suriname in 1699 and experimented with trompe l'oeil, producing the 'earliest masterpiece of coloured natural history.' There are plenty of masterpieces here, from gorgeous illustrations of sea anemones and delightful black and white monkeys to 'borderline animals' (half-imaginary, half real) like a many-legged stick insect and a 'Domesticated Female Orang Outang' wearing a jaunty striped kerchief., One of the top five illustrated books of the year. The Paper Zoo focuses firmly on the planet's biodiverse past, rummaging through the British Library's wealth of natural history illustrations spanning five hundred years. Science historian Sleigh leads us through an ark of beasts from the exotic to the 'paradoxical', limned by greats of scientific illustration. Robert Hooke's eighteenth-century microscopic menagerie of drone flies and lice jostle with natural historian John Ray's Drer-like renderings of fish from the 1680s. The nineteenth-century art ranges further South; my favourite is an anonymous double portrait of langurs (one black, one white) staring sagely out in mid-snack., One of the top five illustrated books of the year. The Paper Zoo focuses firmly on the planet's biodiverse past, rummaging through the British Library's wealth of natural history illustrations spanning five hundred years. Science historian Sleigh leads us through an ark of beasts from the exotic to the 'paradoxical', limned by greats of scientific illustration. Robert Hooke's eighteenth-century microscopic menagerie of drone flies and lice jostle with natural historian John Ray's Dürer-like renderings of fish from the 1680s. The nineteenth-century art ranges further South; my favourite is an anonymous double portrait of langurs (one black, one white) staring sagely out in mid-snack., Pictures can be sources of knowledge. Without them, indeed, some studies would be difficult or impossible to pursue. How could you define and describe innumerable types of animals, birds, and insects using words alone? Sleigh, a historian of science, takes zoological illustration as her theme in The Paper Zoo . Some examples are as cute as the title might suggest. Others, such as Robert Hooke's drawing of a louse clinging to a human hair seen through a microscope in 1665, distinctly less so. But although accuracy, not beauty, was their point, many are nonetheless beautiful., Exploring five hundred years of animals in art and featuring the exotic, native, domestic, and paradoxical, Sleigh's splendid book is alive with marvelous images, accompanied by a superb text., Before the Nature Channel, before camera safaris, even before Audubon, the only way to discover the beasts of foreign lands was through illustrations. In her scholarly and sprightly Paper Zoo , historian of science Sleigh tracks pictures of animals from medieval bestiaries to early twentieth-century school posters. Along the way she uncovers some fascinating stories, like that of Maria Sybilla Merian, who traveled to Suriname in 1699 and experimented with trompe l'oeil, producing the 'earliest masterpiece of coloured natural history.' There are plenty of masterpieces here, from gorgeous illustrations of sea anemones and delightful black and white monkeys to 'borderline animals' (half-imaginary, half real) like a many-legged stick insect and a 'Domesticated Female Orang Outang' wearing a jaunty striped kerchief., [Sleigh] gathers five hundred years' worth of beautiful natural history illustrations to explore the relationship between art and science., One of the top five illustrated books of the year. The Paper Zoo focuses firmly on the planet's biodiverse past, rummaging through the British Library's wealth of natural history illustrations spanning five hundred years. Science historian Sleigh leads us through an ark of beasts from the exotic to the 'paradoxical', limned by greats of scientific illustration. Robert Hooke's eighteenth-century microscopic menagerie of drone flies and lice jostle with natural historian John Ray's Drer-like renderings of fish from the 1680s. The nineteenth-century art ranges further South; my favourite is an anonymous double portrait of langurs (one black, one white) staring sagely out in mid-snack.
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2017
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