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The Paper Zoo: 500 Years of Animals in Art

Hardcover • 2017 • English

The Paper Zoo: 500 Years of Animals in Art

By Charlotte Sleigh

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About the book

As children, our first encounters with the world's animals do not arise during expeditions through faraway jungles or on perilous mountain treks. Instead, we meet these creatures between the pages of a book, on the floor of an obliging library. Down through the centuries, illustrated books have served as our paper zoos, both documenting the world's extraordinary wildlife in exquisite detail and revealing, in hindsight, how our relationship to and understanding of these animals have evolved over ...Show more

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ISBN

9780226447124

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

2017

Language

English

Original title

The Paper Zoo: 500 Years of Animals in Art

Format

Hardcover

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