Scenes from Deep Time : Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World / Martin J. S. Rudwick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rudwick, M. J. S., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Paleontology--History.

Paleontology.

Science--History.

Science.

Prehistoric peoples in art.

Prehistoric animals in art.

Plants, Fossil, in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1995]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the half-century prior to the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations, informed by recent fossil discoveries, were the first efforts to represent the prehistoric world based on sources other than the Bible. Martin J. S. Rudwick presents more than a hundred rare illustrations from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to explore the implications of reconstructing a past no one has ever seen.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

1. Creation and the Flood

2. Keyholes into the Past

3. Monsters of the Ancient World

4. A First Sequence of Scenes

5. Domesticating the Monsters

6. The Genre Established

7. Making Sense of It All

Notes

Sources for Figures and Texts

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780226149035

022614903X

9780226731056

OCLC:

1135591782