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| Author | : Peggy Macnamara |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 48 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780810136571 |
A member of the live arachnid collection in Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History takes the reader on a tour of the museum, introducing such treasures as Sue the Tyrannosaurus rex, as well as the secret specimens of animal fossils and human artifacts hidden away in drawers, cabinets, and bins.
| Author | : Rachel Poliquin |
| Publisher | : Penn State Press |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2012-08-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0271059613 |
From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures. But why would anyone want to preserve an animal, and what is this animal-thing now? Rachel Poliquin suggests that taxidermy is entwined with the enduring human longing to find meaning with and within the natural world. Her study draws out the longings at the heart of taxidermy—the longing for wonder, beauty, spectacle, order, narrative, allegory, and remembrance. In so doing, The Breathless Zoo explores the animal spectacles desired by particular communities, human assumptions of superiority, the yearnings for hidden truths within animal form, and the loneliness and longing that haunt our strange human existence, being both within and apart from nature.
| Author | : Sally Metzler |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 82 |
| Release | : 2007 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
For more than one hundred years, the Field Museum's dioramas have engaged the imaginations of visitors of all ages, drawing them into vivid encounters with the wonders of our natural world. Theatres of Nature takes the reader on a journey around the globe, from the Kalahari desert to the Himalayas, to encounter some of nature's most impressive animals in their natural habitats. Beginning with the rich history of the personalities involved in creating these tableaux, this volume is an in-depth look at selected highlights as well as a comprehensive catalogue of every diorama in the museum's collection, divided into sections for mammals and birds.
| Author | : Ted Rechlin |
| Publisher | : Farcountry Press |
| Total Pages | : 36 |
| Release | : 2017-06-20 |
| Genre | : Games & Activities |
| ISBN | : 1560377054 |
Bring the prehistoric world back to life in your own ultimate dinosaur coloring adventure. Dinosaurs Live! features wonderfully detailed and scientifically accurate coloring pages from acclaimed artist and dino-enthusiast Ted Rechlin (Tyrannosaurus Rex, Jurassic). Each page is jam-packed with amazing facts and coloring areas of your favorite dinosaurs as fossilized museum mounts and in their full glory as they triumphantly roamed the Mesozoic earth. Featuring thirty-one dinosaurs in prehistoric scenes and species ranging from famous favorites to more recently unearthed finds, Dinosaurs Live! is the perfect coloring adventure for dinosaur lovers of all ages.
| Author | : Lance Grande |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 431 |
| Release | : 2017-03-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 022619275X |
Natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centers, full of engaging exhibits that share those discoveries with students and an enthusiastic general public. Grande offers a portrait of curators and their research, conveying the intellectual excitement and the educational and social value of curation. He uses the personal story of his own career-- most of it spent at Chicago's Field Museum-- to explore the value of research and collections, the importance of public engagement, changing ecological and ethical considerations, and the impact of rapidly improving technology.
| Author | : Carl Schuster |
| Publisher | : Abrams |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 1996-09 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
Travelers & scholars have long been puzzled by similarities in the arts of diverse ancient & tribal cultures. It remained for the American art historian Carl Schuster (1904-1969) to discover a set of patterns designed by ancient peoples to illustrate their ideas about kinship. Schuster succeeded in decoding this iconography, which lasted over ten thousand years, crossed continents, & outlived most of the cultures that sheltered it.
| Author | : Jay Pridmore |
| Publisher | : Abrams |
| Total Pages | : 168 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : |
In his introduction, author Jay Pridmore relates how the Museum was founded by Chicago businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald and how it was installed in the imposing Palace of Fine Arts, an architectural monument from the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893. Then, he leads an entertaining and informative tour of the Museum, featuring the incredibly diverse exhibits in five "zones" - Energy, Transportation, Space and Defense, The Human Body and Communications. Discussed and illustrated are such dramatic "icons" of the Museum's early years as the Coal Mine, a complete working mine operation installed in the basement, and the U-505, a German submarine captured during World War II. Among the many other highlights are a full-size Boeing 727 airliner; the Apollo 8 spacecraft, which circled the Moon in 1968; an early display on the prenatal development of a human baby; and the nation's first permanent exhibit on AIDS.
| Author | : H.Field |
| Publisher | : Рипол Классик |
| Total Pages | : 510 |
| Release | : |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 5873406642 |
Fieldmuseum of natural history. Antropological series. Volume 29, no.1: Contributions to the anthropology of Iran by Henry Field, Curator of Physical Anthropology.
