4to. 204 pp. Hard Cover. With Dust Jacket. Color plates throughout. Text in German and English. Very Good.*Heavy volume, could cost extra for shipping.

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Title: Fossil Design: Zeichen versteinerten Lebens (Signs of Petrified Life).
Publisher: Stuttgart/London: Edition Axel Menges.
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3936681244
ISBN 13: 9783936681246
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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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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We deal in antiquarian books, prints, posters, paintings and other art related material. We are also a publisher and distributer of art reference books, primarily catalogues raisonn�s. We are related to Alan Wofsy Fine Arts and Dow & Frosini. Look for us at www.art-books.com

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