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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
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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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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
The Protagonist Magazine
Opulent, provocative and mind-opening, Animal is a magnificent compendium, which is witness to the ... Read more