Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/008996828/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 27 of
27
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""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.".
- catalog contributor b12645179.
- catalog contributor b12645180.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical notes and bibliography (p. 243-282) and index.".
- catalog extent "viii, 285 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Paleoimagery.".
- catalog identifier "0786412224 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Paleoimagery.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., Publishers,".
- catalog relation "Paleoimagery.".
- catalog subject "567.9/022 21".
- catalog subject "Dinosaurs in art.".
- catalog subject "Paleoart History.".
- catalog subject "QE861.4 .D43 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "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.".
- catalog title "Paleoimagery : the evolution of dinosaurs in art / Allen A. Debus and Diane E. Debus ; foreword by Donald F. Glut.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".