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Bibliography on Paleoart

  • Allmon, Warren, 2006. The Pre-Modern History of the Post-Modern Dinosaur: Phases and Causes in Post-Darwinian Dinosaur Art. Earth Sciences History. Vol. 25, 1, p. 5-35.

  • Ansón, Marco et al., 2015. Paleoart: Terms and Conditions (a survey among paleontologists). XIII EJIP Conference Proceedings, p. 28-34.

  • Benton, Michael J., 2021. Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World. London: Thames & Hudson. 

  • Berta, Annalisa, 2020. Art Revealing Science: Marine Mammal Palaeoart. Historical Biology

  • Clary, Renee M. et al. (ed.), 2022. The Evolution of Paleontological Art. The Geological Society of America Memoirs. Vol. 218. 

  • Clements, Thomas, 2022. The perception of paleontology in commercial off-the-shelf video games and an assessment of their potential as educational tools. EGUsphere [preprint]. 

  • Currie, Philip J. and Tropea, Michael (ed.), 2000. Dinosaur Imagery. The Lanzendorf Collection. Academic Press. 

  • Czerkas, Stephen and Clerks Sylvia, 1989. My Life with the Dinosaurs. Byron Press Visual Publications. 

  • Czerkas, Sylvia and Glut, Donald F., 1982. Dinosaurs, Mammoths, and Cavemen. The Art of Charles R. Knight. E. P. Dutton, Inc.

  • Czerkas, Sylvia and Olson, Everett C. (ed.), 1987. Dinosaurs Past and Present. 2 vol. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press. 

  • Davidson, Jane P., 2008. A History of Paleontology Illustration. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 

  • Davidson, Jane P., 2015. Misunderstood Marine Reptiles: Late Nineteenth-Century Artistic Reconstructions of Prehistoric Marine Life. Transactions of Kansas Academy of Science. 118, 1/2, p. 53-67. 

  • Davis, Matt et al., 2022. Designing scientifically-grounded paleoart for augmented reality at La Brea Tar Pits. Palaeontologia Electronica

  • Debus, Allen A., 1993. Historical Dinosaurs: Episodes in discovery and restoration. Earth Sciences History. 12, 1, p. 60-69. 

  • Debus, Allen A. and Debus, Diane E., 2002. Paleoimagery. The Evolution of Dinosaurs in Art. McFarland & Company.

  • Fallon, Richard, 2021. Creatures of Another Age. Classic Visions of Prehistoric Monsters. Richmond: Valancourt Books. 

  • Gurch, John, 2013. Shaping Humanity. How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 

  • Janzen, Dennis, 2020. Vom Fossil zum Bild. Künstlerische Darstellungen prähistorischen Lebens. Deutscher Kunstverlag. 

  • Janzen, Dennis, 2014. Paläontologie als Kunstgeschichte. Robert T. Bakker und die "Dinosaur Renaissance". Marburger Jahrbuch für Kunstwissenschaft. 41, p. 289-310. 

  • Knight, Charles R., 2005. Autobiography of an Artist. Ann Arbor: G.T. Labs. 

  • Kosemen, C. M., 2013. All Your Yesterdays. Extraordinary Visions of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Animals from a New Generation of Palaeoartists. Irregular Books. 

  • Lescaze, Zoë, 2017. Paleoart. Visions of the Prehistoric Past. Taschen. 

  • Manias, Chris, 2017. Robert Broom's Prehistoric Sketches: Conveying Objects Through Illustration in the Early Twentieth-Century. Museum History Journal. 10, 2, p. 162-182.

  • McDermott, Amy, 2020. Dinosaur art evolves with new discoveries in paleontology. PNAS, 117, 6, p. 2728-2731. 

  • Mitchell, W. J. T., 1998. The Last Dinosaur Book. The Life and Time of a Cultural Icon. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 

  • Naish, Darren et al., 2012. All Yesterdays: Unique and Speculative Views of Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals. Irregular Books. 

  • Naish, Darren and Tattersdill, Will, 2021. Art, anatomy, and the stars: Russell and Séguin's dinosauroid. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences. 58, 9. 

  • Nieuwland, I. J. J., 2004. Gerhard Heilmann and the Artist's Eye in Science, 1912-1927. PalArch's Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 3, 2, p. 10-19. 

  • Nieuwland, I. J. J., 2020. Paleoart comes into its own. Science Magazine. 386, 6500, p. 148-149.

  • O'Connor, Ralph, 2007. The Earth on Show. Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 

  • Paul, Gregory S., 1996. The Art of Charles R. Knight. Scientific American. 274, 6, p. 86-93. 

  • Rieppel, Lukas, 2012. Bringing Dinosaurs Back to Life. Exhibiting Prehistory at the American Museum of Natural History. Isis. 103, p. 460-490. 

  • Romano, Marco et al., 2015. Taking up the Legacy of Waterhouse Hawkins and Owen: Art and Science for a New Italian Project to Bring Dinosaurs to Life. Historical Biology. 28, 8, p. 1014-1025. 

  • Ross, Robert M. et al., 2013. The Posture of Tyrannosaurus rex: Why Do Student Views Lag Behind the Science? Journal of Geoscience Education. 61, p. 145-160. 

  • Rudwick, Martin J. S., 1992. Scenes From Deep Time. Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press.

  • Seilacher, Dolf, 2008. Fossil Art. An exhibition of the Geologisches Institut. Tübingen University, Germany. 

  • Taquet, Philippe and Padian, Kevin, 2004. The Earliest Known Restoration of a Pterosaur and the Philosophical Origins of Cuvier's Ossemens Fossiles. Palevol. 3, p. 157-175.

  • Trusler, Peter et al., 2010. The Artist and the Scientists: Bringing Prehistory to Life. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

  • Turner, Derek D., 2019. Paleoaesthetics and the Practice of Paleontology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 

  • Volpe, Rosemary (ed.), 2007. The Age of Reptiles. The Art and Science of Rudolph Zallinger's Great Dinosaur Mural at Yale. New Haven: Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University. 

  • Wang, Qi et al., 2019. A critical review of the application of paleo-art in paleontological exhibition - a case study of the Dinosaurs of China exhibition in Wollaston Hall and Lakeside Arts, Nottingham. Museum Management and Curatorship

  • White, Steve (ed.), 2012. Dinosaur Art, The World's Greatest Paleoart. London: Titan Books.

  • Willoughby, Emily, 2021. Drawing and Painting Dinosaurs. Ramsbury: The Crowood Press.  

  • Witton, Mark P. et al., 2014. State of the Paleoart. Paleontological Electronica. 17, 3. 

  • Witton, Mark P., 2018. The Palaeoartist's Handbook. Ramsbury: The Crowood Press.

  • Witton, Mark P. and Michel, Ellinor, 2022. Art and Science of the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs. Ramsbury: The Crowood Press. 

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