Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins - Brossura

Gurche, John

 
9780300216844: Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins
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ISBN 10: 030021684X ISBN 13: 9780300216844
Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2015

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How an artist draws on fossil discoveries and forensic techniques to create transfixing reconstructions of long-lost human ancestors

What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally renowned paleoartist John Gurche describes the extraordinary process by which he creates forensically accurate and hauntingly realistic representations of our ancient human ancestors.
 
Inspired by a lifelong fascination with all things prehistoric, and gifted with a unique artistic vision, Gurche has studied fossil remains, comparative ape and human anatomy, and forensic reconstruction for over three decades. His artworks appear in world-class museums and publications ranging from National Geographic to the journal Science, and he is widely known for his contributions to Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park and a number of acclaimed television specials. For the Smithsonian Institution’s groundbreaking David H. Koch Hall of Human Origins, opened in 2010, Gurche created fifteen sculptures representing six million years of human history. In Shaping Humanity he relates how he worked with a team of scientists to depict human evolution in sculpture for the new hall. He reveals the debates and brainstorming that surround these often controversial depictions, and along the way he enriches our awareness of the various paths of human evolution and humanity’s stunning uniqueness in the history of life on Earth.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Award-winning paleoartist John Gurche is artist-in-residence, Museum of the Earth, Paleontological Research Institute, Ithaca, NY. His works have appeared frequently in National Geographic and similar publications and in major natural history museums.
 

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Editore
Yale Univ Pr
Data di pubblicazione
2015
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
030021684X
ISBN 13 
9780300216844
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
345
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9780300182026: Shaping Humanity: How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins

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ISBN 10:  0300182023 ISBN 13:  9780300182026
Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2013
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