Laura Cunningham: "A State of Change"

galleria: http://www.a-state-of-change.com/
intervista (video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k23nxb_uoMk

"Our libraries and museums contain so many historical accounts by explorers, pioneers, native people, and naturalists; scholarly studies of fluctuating wildlife populations during the colonization period; ecological research into present California systems; archaeology and paleontology; old photographs of the state on the edge of pristine times; and  magnificent paintings of early landscapes. Surely, I thought, a comprehensive re-creation can be attempted. Bolstered by this thought, since 1980 I have traveled all over the state, tracking the remaining vestiges and relictual pieces of semi-pristine landscapes in order to flesh out the narratives that I found. The clues to the past yet remain, if one is willing to patiently seek them in the field"

Zallinger

Jan Vriesen: "Ancient Denvers"

http://www.dmns.org/main/minisites/ancientdenvers/landscapes.html
http://www.hcn.org/articles/colorados-ancient-past
http://thevriesens.com/

"Ancient Denvers: Scenes from the Past 300 Million Years of the Colorado Front Range" (di  Kirk Johnson; illustrato da Jan Vriesen,  Donna Braginetz, Gary Stabb) 

Che cos'è la Geomitologia?

La geomitologia vi è già stata introdotta in un precedente post (13/04/2012 Fossili e Miti). Per approfondirne la storia e le finalità, vi suggerisco la lettura di questo nuovo articolo di Leonardo Ambasciano: "Che cos'è la geomitologia? Breve storia bibliografica di una disciplina al femminile" (aggiornamento 28/08/12 "Myth and Geology")

Wayne Barlowe (1996) - Ispirandosi ad un'ipotesi della folklorista Adrienne Mayor, Barlowe raffigura un grifone dalle fattezze di un dinosauro ceratopso. Le "origini" del grifone restano da chiarire,  a prescindere dall'ipotetica componente geomitologica.

Il secondo futuro di Max Klinger

"Impulses and Desires": Klinger's Darwinism in Nature and Society

http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/index.php/spring03/223-excavating-greece-classicism-between-empire-and-nation-in-nineteenth-century-europe

"Zweite Zukunft" (1898)

"Verfolgter Centaur " (1881)

"Entführung" (1881)

Mauricio Antón: _Barbourofelis_

Nella gif animata (dal blog di David Maas: www.drip.de/) vengono evidenziate le fasi realizzative di una illustrazione di Mauricio Antón (per approfondimenti: "Chasing Sabertooths")

Mauricio Antón
galleria web: http://www.mauricioanton.com/
blog: http://chasingsabretooths.wordpress.com/
canale You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/user/mauricioantontv

Mauricio Antón - Barbourofelis morrisi