Ever since the creation of the world's first zoological and botanical gardens 5,000 years ago, people have collected, displayed, and depicted animals and plants from lands far beyond their everyday experience. Strange and Wonderful offers a richly illustrated journey across millennia and around the globe to explore the root of this phenomenon in art.
Ever since the creation of the world's first zoological and botanical gardens 5,000 years ago, people have collected, displayed, and depicted animals and plants from lands far beyond their everyday experience. Strange and Wonderful offers a richly illustrated journey across millennia and around the globe to explore the root of this phenomenon in art.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Karen Polinger Foster specializes in the art and archaeology of the Bronze Age Aegean, with particular interests in interconnections with Egypt and Mesopotamia. She is Lecturer of Near Eastern Languages and Civilization and History of Art at Yale University. She is the author or co-author of numerous books, including Civilizations of Ancient Iraq (2009), co-authored with Benjamin R. Foster, received the 2010 Felicia A. Holton Book Award from the Archaeological Institute of America.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction Chapter 1: The Cradle of Exotica Chapter 2: Novelties on the Nile Chapter 3: Knowing the Unknown Chapter 4: Exotica and Europe Chapter 5: True and Proper Pictures Chapter 6: Crossing the Atlantic Conclusions Bibliography
Introduction Chapter 1: The Cradle of Exotica Chapter 2: Novelties on the Nile Chapter 3: Knowing the Unknown Chapter 4: Exotica and Europe Chapter 5: True and Proper Pictures Chapter 6: Crossing the Atlantic Conclusions Bibliography
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