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Fossil Design
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Hardcover. Fossils are the petrified remains of former living organisms. Their systematics and their former living conditions are studied and described in palaeontology. This book attempts to show the character of these life forms as signs and to pursue the question of whether fossils and representations of fossils can be considered 'beautiful'. Editor(s): Ibbeken, Hillert. Num Pages: 204 pages, 176 colour photos. BIC Classification: WNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 307 x 291 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1764.
Text in German & English. Fossils are the petrified remains of former living organisms. Their systematics and their former living conditions are studied and described in palaeontology. In contrast to this, this book attempts to show the character of these life forms as signs and to pursue the question of whether fossils and representations of fossils can be considered "beautiful". For this reason, the pictures' sequence is not based on a palaeontological system of classification, but instead progresses from realistic representations of, for instance, a coral's body in its entirety through ever smaller sectors of the image and details divorced ... Read more
Text in German & English. Fossils are the petrified remains of former living organisms. Their systematics and their former living conditions are studied and described in palaeontology. In contrast to this, this book attempts to show the character of these life forms as signs and to pursue the question of whether fossils and representations of fossils can be considered "beautiful". For this reason, the pictures' sequence is not based on a palaeontological system of classification, but instead progresses from realistic representations of, for instance, a coral's body in its entirety through ever smaller sectors of the image and details divorced ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Language
German
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783936681246
SKU
V9783936681246
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About
Until his retirement Hillert Ibbeken was a professor of geology at the Freie Universität Berlin, but his lifelong occupation has been architectural photography.
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