BESTIARY

Arranged thematically into five chapters (wild, domestic, exotic, symbolic, and hybrids and mythical creatures), this book depicts a nimals in intelligent pairings and groupings of images that encourage the reader to find and learn the cultural context and connecti ons between the origins of many different civilizations. An ancient Egyptian bronze divine cat sits next to a nineteenth-century pri nt of English domestic feline bliss/ a miniature Ice Age mammoth sits with an ancient engraved drawing of a horse/ a Minoan acrobat leaps ont...[Llegir més]