TOKYO, Oct. 19, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- PIE International
Inc., an art book publisher based in Tokyo, announces an unprecedented dinosaur art
book, The Art of the Dinosaur: Illustrations by the Top
Paleoartists in the World, a collection of stunning
illustrations by nine of the world's most accomplished paleoartists
today.
The artists in this collection present a selection of their
works that show not only the dynamism of this artistic genre, but
also the great detail and individual technique of each art work
itself. The artistic renderings are the result of collaborations
with paleontologists and are based on the most recent discoveries.
These astonishing images of dinosaurs will overturn our
conventional ideas about them.
James Kuether, a Minneapolis, Minnesota-based artist has
commented on the title as follows:
"This collection beautifully presents the diversity of art and
artists working in the field today while it celebrates the critical
role that paleoart plays in the science of paleontology. More and
more, paleontologists rely on artists to help communicate important
findings to the public and to generate excitement and interest.
Occasionally, the art itself can help inform the science, as
artists work with paleontologists and speculate about appearance
and behaviors that can prompt new lines of inquiry and
research."
In addition to their artwork, each artist's section contains
their own words about their professional focus, their methods and
techniques and how they became fascinated with dinosaur art. This
book has been edited by Kazuo
Terakado, a renowned Japanese science journalist, and at the
end of the book is his interview with Dr. Makoto Manabe, a prominent paleontologist that
gives a solid history of the depiction of dinosaurs. Dinosaur fans,
fantasy art fans as well as 3D art professionals and students will
enjoy exploring the world of dinosaur art today with this book.
About the book:
Title: The Art of the Dinosaur : Illustrations by the
Top Paleoartists in the World
Edited by Kazuo Terakado
Size:9 x 12 "
(210×297mm)
Pages:200 pages (full color)
Binding:Hardbound
ISBN:978-4-7562-4922-7
Release Date: October 20,
2017
Language: English
Price: USD49.95 / GBP35.00 / EUR
49.95
https://www.edelweiss.plus/?sku=4756249221
About PIE International Inc.:
Established in 1987, PIE International publishes high-quality
visual books on art, design, comic as well as lifestyle, and
distributes the books worldwide through local distributors.
http://www.pie.co.jp/english/
Artists featured:
James Kuether
An author, editor and illustrator. He is an award-winning artist
whose paintings and photographs hang in galleries and private
collections around the globe. He is an amateur fossil hunter and a
life-long dinosaur enthusiast. His natural history art has appeared
in numerous publications and accompanies museum displays in
the United States and Europe. His first book The Amazing World of
Dinosaurs, features more than 160 original illustrations, and was
published by Adventure/Keen in October
2016.
Emily Willoughby
An American scientific illustrator best known for her
reconstructions of feathered dinosaurs, both living and extinct.
Her work has been featured in a variety of forms, online and off,
including the National Geographic Society, the Denver Museum of
Nature and Science, the Shanghai Natural History Museum, and in
various paleontological research reports in journals such as
Evolution and Nature News. Her first book, a recently released
coauthored work featuring a series of her paintings of feathered
dinosaurs, is relevant in the context of evolution/creation
controversy in the US. Emily enjoys working in a variety of media,
from digital painting to acrylics, oil, gouache and watercolor
paints to bird photography. As a result of her background in
biology, her primary focus is the fusion of research, realism and
aesthetics in artwork. Emily lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she is studying
for a Ph.D. in behavior genetics.
Luis V.Rey
A Spanish-Mexican artist. He has a master's degree in visual
arts from Academy of San Carlos, National
Autonomous University of Mexico in 1977. He began his career
as a symbolist, hyperrealist and surrealist painter and sculptor. A
dinosaur fan from the age of three, he rediscovered dinosaurs after
the dinosaur renaissance in the late 1980s. He then began to study
paleontology in depth to prepare for his updated and revised
reconstructions for publication in popular books. His work took him
around the world for research and for meetings with top
paleontologists. He has co-published with several of these experts.
He is currently working with Stone Company and Gondwana Studios
creating murals for exhibitions.
Zhao Chuang
A Chinese science artist and co-founder of PNSO, a world-class
scientific art research institution. Since 2006, Zhao Chuang's artworks have been published in
prominent academic publications such as Nature, Science and Cell.
He collaborates with dozens of leading scientists from research
institutions including the American Museum of Natural History, the
University of Chicago, and the Chinese
Academy of Sciences, the Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences and
Beijing Natural History Museum, working in their paleontology
research projects and providing artistic support for their fossil
restoration works.
Davide Bonadonna
He has been working as a medical and scientific illustrator for
more than 15 years, combining scientific research and visual
communication. In 2007 he became a full-time paleontology
illustrator and digital sculptor, and he has won prestigious
international awards including the Lanzendorf PaleoArt Prize.
Cooperating with paleontologists worldwide on prehistoric model
reconstructions and settings, he has displayed his work in museums,
exhibits and theme parks, and has published them in scientific and
educational magazines, including National Geographic. His
illustrations are featured in the traveling exhibition "Dinosaurs
in the Flesh."
Sergey Krasovskiy
A freelance paleoartist, lives in the Donbas in Ukraine. Born in 1975, he is a graduate of
Lugansk Art College. He creates pale illustrations for a number of
publishers. He has worked with a number of paleontologists,
including Christophe Hendrickx from
Portugal. Four years ago he
switched to a graphics tablet for greater time economy, but he
still uses traditional art media upon request and at times for
pleasure.
Rodolfo Nogueira
A paleoartist and a graduate in industrial design. He developed
and published a scientific methodology, Paleodesign, for restoring
extinct animals. He has worked in museums in Brazil, Argentina, Spain, the United
States, Portugal,
Germany and Georgia. With more than 15 years of experience
in artistic illustration and 10 years in scientific illustration
His illustrations have been printed on Brazilian postage stamps and
in the Dinosaurs of Brazil line of
toys. He has published illustrations in textbooks, scientific
journals (Plos One, Cretaceous Research, Journal of Vertebrate
Paleontology, and others) and in magazines such as Scieintific
American, BBC and National Geographic. He currently leads
Prehistoric Factory, a design company focused on scientific
illustration.
Masato Hattori
He was born in 1966 in Nagoya
City, Japan. His long-term
artistic theme is life, which includes reconstructed images of
dinosaurs and other paleoorganisms. He has shown his works, mainly
acrylic paintings, in numerous solo and group exhibitions in
Tokyo and Nagoya. Since 2005, though, he has gradually
shifted to digital creation, and this is now his main focus. In
2013, he created reconstructed images of two new discoveries:
Aurornis xui, a newly unearthed species of dinosaur announced in
Nature; and a Therizinosaurus nesting site in Mongolia, announced by the Society of
Vertebrate Paleontology. In 2014, he created an image of the body
of a dead dinosaur drifting under the sea in ancient times based on
remains found by Hokkaido University in
Hobetsu, Hokkaido as well as a new reconstructed image of
Deinocheirus. In 2015, he drew two other new discoveries,
Nipponoolithus ramosus and Huanansaurus ganzhouensis. He hopes to
continue creating his vivid images of ancient creatures, based on
insights gained from discussion with researchers.
Raul Martin
A Spanish illustrator, born in Madrid in 1964. He has been a professional
illustrator for over 30 years and has had a deep professional and
personal interest in paleoart for the last 20 years. These years of
experience and ongoing study have given him a great deal of
paleontological knowledge about fossil plants and vertebrate and
invertebrate animals, since the Mesozoic and Palaeozoic eras are
his specialty. He has worked for some of the most prominent
paleontologists, including Paul
Sereno, Curry and Kristi
Rogers, Jennifer Clack,
Alan Titus and Jose Luis Sanz. He also works regularly for some
of the leading scientific journals, including Nature, Scientific
American and National Geographic, and collaborates in large scale
projects for prestigious museums worldwide. He employs both
traditional and digital techniques to achieve his realistic style.
In his digital work, he avoids artificial methods such as
photo-montage and rendering, so his digital creation process is
identical to his work with traditional medial like oil and
acrylic.
Kazuo Terakado,
editor:
He is a renowned Japanese science journalist, TV commentator,
and a senior researcher at Japan Space Forum. His reportage spans a
wide range of science topics, from paleontology to space, from life
sciences to global issues, and beyond, to art, literature and
science fiction. He was the managing editor of Newton, the
immensely popular science magazine in Japan for 20 years, since the time of the
first issue in 1981. During his time at Newton he also published
numerous science books. Over the past 40 years, Terakado has been
covering the development of the study of dinosaurs, and during that
time he has witnessed a dramatic evolution in the world of dinosaur
art, or "paleoart". This book is a collection of his favorite works
by contemporary paleoartists from around the planet.
About Paleoart:
Paleoart is any original artistic manifestation that attempts to
reconstruct or depict prehistoric life according to the latest
knowledge and scientific evidence in paleontology today. Paleoart
first became extremely popular during the 1990s following the
megahit Jurassic Park (1993) and was enhanced by advances in
computer graphics technology. Since 2000, the Society of Vertebrate
Paleontology has awarded the Lanzendorf PaleoArt Prize for
achievement in the field.
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