Fossils are the petrified remains of former living organisms. Their systematics and their former living conditions are studied and described in palaeontology. This book attempts to show the character of these life forms as signs and to pursue the question of whether fossils and representations of fossils can be considered 'beautiful'. Editor(s): Ibbeken, Hillert. Num Pages: 204 pages, 176 colour photos. BIC Classification: WNR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 307 x 291 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1764. . 2009. Bilingual. Hardcover. . . . .

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Title: Fossil Design
Publisher: Edition Axel Menges
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3936681244
ISBN 13: 9783936681246
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Fossils are the petrified remains of former living organisms. Their systematics and their former living conditions are studied and described in palaeontology. In contrast to this, this book attempts to show the character of these life forms as signs and to pursue the question of whether fossils and representations of fossils can be considered beautiful. For this reason, the pictures' sequence is not based on a palaeontological system of classification, but instead progresses from realistic representations of, for instance, a coral's body in its entirety through ever smaller sectors of the image and details divorced from context to almost abstract images.

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Until his retirement Hillert Ibbeken was a professor of geology at the Freie Universitat Berlin, but his lifelong occupation has been architectural photography.

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