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Before Disenchantment: Images of Exotic Animals and Plants in the Early Modern World
Peter Mason
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hardcover. When explorers and artists travelled to new lands in the early modern period, the exotic plants and animals that they encountered often seemed strange and outlandish. This title examines how these artists grappled with the problems of representing unfamiliar flora and fauna. Num Pages: 248 pages, 100 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JB; ACN; AGN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 214 x 158 x 29. Weight in Grams: 670.
When explorers and artists travelled to new lands in the early modern period, the exotic plants and animals that they encountered often seemed strange and outlandish. "Before Disenchantment" examines how these artists grappled with the problems of representing unfamiliar flora and fauna, in particular anomalous cases that seemed to defy straightforward classification as either plant or animal. One solution was to describe and portray these alien animals and plants as strange hybrids of both, and the images they made took many forms: from the Lamb of Tartary, which grew inside a large gourd-like fruit; to camel-sheep'; to races of monopods ... Read more
When explorers and artists travelled to new lands in the early modern period, the exotic plants and animals that they encountered often seemed strange and outlandish. "Before Disenchantment" examines how these artists grappled with the problems of representing unfamiliar flora and fauna, in particular anomalous cases that seemed to defy straightforward classification as either plant or animal. One solution was to describe and portray these alien animals and plants as strange hybrids of both, and the images they made took many forms: from the Lamb of Tartary, which grew inside a large gourd-like fruit; to camel-sheep'; to races of monopods ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861894373
SKU
V9781861894373
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About Peter Mason
Peter Mason is the author of many books, including The Lives of Images (Reaktion, 2001). He lives in Rome and works as a consultant in art and anthropology for the Fundacion America, Santiago de Chile.
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