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Title: Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel (Monographs)
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Manufacturer: Prestel Publishing
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| Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel (Monographs) by Prestel Publishing glorious and bizarre |
a brilliant draftsman and scientist, heackel shows us that the natural world is not only incredibly beautiful, but weirder than anything you can invent.
there are larger and more expensive editions of this book to be had, as well as smaller and digital versions. the 12" x 9" dover edition folio is a nice reference size, well printed, colorful, and a great price. |
| Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel (Monographs) by Prestel Publishing two books, mixed descriptions |
There are multiple books with reproductions of Haeckel's Art Forms in Nature. Two are published by Prestel: a $25 9x12 monograph with essays about the work, and a $9 3x5 postcard book. The descriptions of the two are mixed up. Both are great for what they are.
Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel (Monographs) |
| Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel (Monographs) by Prestel Publishing The online description versus customer comments |
The following is Amazon's description of this book:
Paperback: 139 pages
Publisher: Prestel Publishing (August 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 3791319906
ISBN-13: 978-3791319902
Product Dimensions: 12.3 x 9.4 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
More than one customer review states that they received a book that is only 3 inches wide. I hesitate to buy this book since the info posted may be misleading. |
| Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel (Monographs) by Prestel Publishing little book big eyes |
| decent for the price but it's made for little tiny people with little tiny little hands, cuz it has these little tiny ilustrations with bowed legs. |
| Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel (Monographs) by Prestel Publishing The best architech out there, nature |
This book is full of illustration of organisms you can find on nature.I repeat, it is not fantasy, these beautiful illustration are drawings of things that are right there, sometimes too small to see with the naked eye, in nature, and one can only awe at such beauty and design skills. Haeckel did a great job combining biology with art, and it shows on this book.
A note of advise: these edition has color, the other one is black&white. |
| Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel (Monographs) by Prestel Publishing Book Description |
| Thirty beautiful postcards of some of the world's best-known artists, reproduced in the highest quality and printed on thick, durable paper -- Prestel postcard books make a perfect gift. |
| Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel (Monographs) by Prestel Publishing Amazon.com |
| Every biology student knows Ernst Haeckel as the originator of the "Biogenetic Law": ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. Haeckel was a passionate student of the evolutionary shaping of biological forms, and Art Forms in Nature captures both his artistic sensibility and the scientific rigor he applied to all his studies. First published in 1904, Art Forms in Nature is a glorification of function and form, a demonstration of organic symmetry that has nothing--and everything--to do with nature as it actually exists. Each plate exhibits organisms carefully arranged and exquisitely detailed, "a symbiosis between decorative sketches and descriptive observations of nature," as Olaf Breidbach states in his fascinating introductory text. The radiolarians, medusae, rotifers, bryozoans, and even frogs and turtles lovingly recreated here are gorgeous and self-explanatory, rendered in delicate, filigreed lines, and colored gently with muted green, delicate pink, and sepia. Art students will appreciate the designs found in nature--scientists will love the evolutionary statement of form inherent in the beauty. --Therese Littleton |
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