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Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel
Olaf Briedbach
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Description for Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel
Paperback. The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findings of this natural scientist. Num Pages: 144 pages, 100 colour and 30 b& w illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; AFH; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 301 x 14. Weight in Grams: 912.
The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findings of this natural scientist. Powerful modern microscopes have confirmed the accuracy of Haeckel's prints, which even in their day, became world famous. Haeckel's portfolio, first published between 1899 and 1904 in separate installments, is described in the opening essays. The plates illustrate Haeckel's fundamental monistic notion of the "unity of all living things" and the wide variety of forms are executed with utmost delicacy. Incipient microscopic organisms are juxtaposed with highly ... Read more
The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findings of this natural scientist. Powerful modern microscopes have confirmed the accuracy of Haeckel's prints, which even in their day, became world famous. Haeckel's portfolio, first published between 1899 and 1904 in separate installments, is described in the opening essays. The plates illustrate Haeckel's fundamental monistic notion of the "unity of all living things" and the wide variety of forms are executed with utmost delicacy. Incipient microscopic organisms are juxtaposed with highly ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Prestel
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
Munich, Germany
ISBN
9783791319902
SKU
V9783791319902
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