Overview

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.

Full Product Details

Author:   Allen A. Debus ,  Diane E. Debus ,  Donald F Glut
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 21.10cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 27.70cm
Weight:   0.720kg
ISBN:  

9780786464203

ISBN 10:   0786464208
Pages:   293
Publication Date:   30 April 2011
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Foreword     Preface     1 Dinosaurs and Evolution—Conflated Imagery     2 Kronosaurus—An Imaginary Sea Monster That Got Away     3 Grandmasters of the Paleoartists’ Hall of Fame     4 John Martin and the Element of Paleoart Fantasy     5 Henry Ward’s Last Great Siberian Mammoth     6 Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins—A Modern Pygmalion     7 A Mythic Place in Time-Spirit in the Knight     8 Paleoart—Search Image and Theory     9 Verne’s Paleontological Journey     10 Time for Dinosaurs     11 Plated Puzzle     12 America’s Paleoart Reformation     13 A Tertiary Primer     14 Othenio Abel—Artistic Founder of Paleobiology     15 Zdenek Burian’s Global Visions of Prehistory     16 The Ages of Zallinger     17 Neave Parker’s Prehistoric World     18 Acanthopholis—a “Twilight Zone” Dinosaur     19 Bully for Laelaps     20 Tickled by Feathers     21 Inside-Out Mastodon     22 Louis Paul Jonas’ Prehistoric Sculpturdermy     23 Speculative Paleontology—Lessons in Reverse Paleontology     24 Portraying Paleocatastrophe     25 Tyrant Queen—Icon-o-saurus Rex     26 The Great Dinosaur Race-Wisconsin's Dinosaurs     27 Illuminating Fossils from the Dark Continent     28 Hypsilophodon—a “Super” Dinosaur     29 High Stakes Dinosaur—Las Vegas’ Robotosaurs     30 Ernie’s Paleozoo     31 Building Life-Sized Dinosaurs     32 Those Incredible Shrinking Dinosaurs     33 Joined at the Hip?     34 The Big Sho`     35 THUNDER in Their Footsteps     36 Renaissance Dinosaurs     Notes     Bibliography     Index    

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entertaining...invaluable...unprecedented...simultaneously educates and delights, goals felicitously achieved here...a wealth of illustrations --Booklist; nicely illustrated...a beautiful hardcover book packed with historic illustration --Prehistoric Times; a veritable tour de force of dinosaur imagery...in depth...refreshing...excellent...exhilarating --Dino Land; valuable --The Canadian Field-Naturalist; if you are interested in the history of dinosaurs in popular culture, Debus is an author you simply cannot ignore...Debus does a huge service to those who work in the history of science --H-Net Reviews.

"""entertaining...invaluable...unprecedented...simultaneously educates and delights, goals felicitously achieved here...a wealth of illustrations""--Booklist; ""nicely illustrated...a beautiful hardcover book packed with historic illustration""--Prehistoric Times; ""a veritable tour de force of dinosaur imagery...in depth...refreshing...excellent...exhilarating""--Dino Land; ""valuable""--The Canadian Field-Naturalist; ""if you are interested in the history of dinosaurs in popular culture, Debus is an author you simply cannot ignore...Debus does a huge service to those who work in the history of science""--H-Net Reviews."

entertaining...invaluable...unprecedented...simultaneously educates and delights, goals felicitously achieved here...a wealth of illustrations --<i>Booklist</i>; nicely illustrated...a beautiful hardcover book packed with historic illustration --<i>Prehistoric Times</i>; a veritable tour de force of dinosaur imagery...in depth...refreshing...excellent...exhilarating --<i>Dino Land</i>; valuable --<i>The Canadian Field-Naturalist.</i>

Author Information

Allen A. Debus, a retired environmental chemist, has long been infatuated with dinosaurs, paleontology, science fiction, Godzilla and King Kong. He has written several books addressing prehistoric creatures—both real and fictional—in popular culture, and attends Chicagoland’s Wizard World and G-Fest. He is a member of the G-Fan Hall of Fame and lives in Hanover Park, Illinois. The late Diane E. Debus was a writer and coauthored articles with her husband Allen A. Debus. She lived in Hanover Park, Illinois.

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