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Chargement... All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals (édition 2012)par John Conway (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreAll Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals par John Conway
![]() Aucun Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. ![]() ![]() I heard about this book maybe a year ago, and wanted it immediately. At the time, though, I could only find it as an e-book, which, meh. Somehow I saw that it was in paperback right around the time I was putting together a Christmas wishlist, and a few weeks later, I was delighted to unwrap it. It was instantly at the top of my reading pile. It took longer than I would have predicted to read, but in all the best ways! I had been expecting just an art book -- creatively imagining how dinosaurs might have looked because -- who knows!? The sample illustrations (especially the sleeping T Rex) sold me, I wasn't really expecting science. But it was science. Each picture came with a story of how paleoart works, and the prejudices we hold that have prevented species from being depicted a certain way in the past. For instance -- why are there almost no pictures of dinosaurs sleeping? Why no pictures of smaller dinosaurs sheltering in dens, despite recent evidence some certainly did. Why are all tall spines in dinosaurs almost always interpreted as "skin sails" like the Dimetrodon, even though the Dimetrodon isn't a dinosaur, and modern species like chameleons exhibit tall vertebral spines but do not have sails. In addition to all the cutting edge paleoart discussion, there was also a fantastic section illustrating the difficulties of drawing an animal based only on its skeleton by imaging future scientists, lacking picture of present-day species, trying to imagine what cats, cows, vultures, etc., looked like based only on theirs. Fascinating and delightful. Highly recommended! This in an alternative interpretation of how dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals may have looked based on reconstructions from fossil records. Although footnotes are used throughout the book, there is no table of contents, index, or bibliography. It is an interesting topic and could generate discussion among dinosaur lovers. This book is appropriate for adults interested in paleontology. A book about reconstructing the appearance of extinct animals, and how that involves both scientific anatomical work and essentially artistic guesses about unknown or unknowable aspects of soft tissue and behaviour. The first part of the book offers heterodox, but not impossible or necessarily unlikely, reconstructions of extinct animals (mostly dinosaurs), such as a spiny Triceratops, tree-climbing Protoceratops, and furball Leaellynasaura. The second, and to my perverted tastes more interesting, part depicts modern animals as if they were known only from their skeletons and using techniques that have been employed in palaeoart, showing how things may go wrong. Most notably, it criticizes what the authors call "skin-wrapping", the tendency to depict dinosaurs and other ancient "reptiles" with minimal fat, skin flaps, feathers, etc, leaving the skeleton and musculature visible in life to an extent rare among living animals. Birds and whales, in particular, illustrated in this style turn into nightmarish creatures that would seem more appropriate in an SF movie than in a wildlife show. A good and thought-provoking book. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
"This is a book about the way we see dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Lavishly illustrated with over sixty original artworks, All Yesterdays aims to challenge our notions of how prehistoric animals looked and behaved. As a critical exploration of palaeontological art, All Yesterdays asks questions about what is probable, what is possible, and what is commonly ignored."--P. [4] of cover. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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![]() GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)567.9Natural sciences and mathematics Fossils & prehistoric life Fossil cold-blooded vertebrates ReptiliaClassification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:![]()
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