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Animal: A Beastly Compendium
Valerie Sueur-Hermel
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Description for Animal: A Beastly Compendium
Hardback. "First published in France under the title Animal A 2014, Bibliothaeque nationale de France." Num Pages: 176 pages, 100 BW and colour illus. BIC Classification: AC; AGN; WN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 300 x 220. .
This sumptuous book presents a selection of over one hundred stunning artworks, depicting animals real and mythical, from the prints and photography collections of the Bibliotheque nationale de France. The work opens with a preface from celebrated cultural historian Michel Pastoureau, who considers the symbolic importance of animals to our dreams and imagination. Each image is accompanied by a commentary from one of the BnF's expert editorial team of curators and archivists, which provides information on the natural and symbolic history of the creature depicted. Featured artworks include such masterpieces as Durer's rhinoceros, Manet's cats, a carp by Hiroshige and Matisse's swan. This is a truly beautiful and authoritative collection of some of the most recognisable and accomplished works of animal-themed art, from the medieval period to the present day.
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474274944
SKU
V9781474274944
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Ref
99-1
About Valerie Sueur-Hermel
Remi Mathis is a curator at the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris. A specialist of old-masters prints, he has extensively published on this subject. He is also the editor of the French scholarly journal on printmaking, Nouvelles de l'estampe, and teaches at the Ecole nationale des chartes and the Ecole du Louvre, both in France. Valerie Sueur-Hermel is a curator at the Bibliotheque nationale de France in Paris. Michel Pastoureau is a director of studies at the Sorbonne, France. He is an academician of the Academie internationale d'heraldique and vice-president of the Societe francaise d'heraldique.
Reviews for Animal: A Beastly Compendium
The edition of Animal: A Beastly Compendium published by Bloomsbury in their beautiful range of Art History invites to touch, look, turn every page and to dream yourself into the pictures and immerse yourself in the stories they tell.
The Protagonist Magazine
Opulent, provocative and mind-opening, Animal is a magnificent compendium, which is witness to the intertwining of human and animal lives, showing not only how richly and insistently humans have thought about animals, but also how good animals are to think with.
Steven Connor, Professor of English at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK
Informative, thought-provoking and visually stunning, this volume will prove richly rewarding for anyone interested in probing the connections between animals, culture, art and history. The book's authoritative, engaging texts and sumptuous illustrations make Animal an intellectual and visual pleasure.
Pia F. Cuneo, Professor of Art History at the University of Arizona, USA
The Protagonist Magazine
Opulent, provocative and mind-opening, Animal is a magnificent compendium, which is witness to the intertwining of human and animal lives, showing not only how richly and insistently humans have thought about animals, but also how good animals are to think with.
Steven Connor, Professor of English at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge, UK
Informative, thought-provoking and visually stunning, this volume will prove richly rewarding for anyone interested in probing the connections between animals, culture, art and history. The book's authoritative, engaging texts and sumptuous illustrations make Animal an intellectual and visual pleasure.
Pia F. Cuneo, Professor of Art History at the University of Arizona, USA