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The Late Fauna of Early North America: The Art of Scott Musgrove

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A lovingly produced book on a great modern surrealist. Put this one on the shelf with Todd Schorr, Ryden, and Alex Gross. And make sure you read the introduction and footnotes as they are very funny.

great book
discover numerous animal species and theories of musgrove
excelent presentation and images quality.

A most decidedly good book, from a most decidedly interesting Artist. Intellectually riveting. A man of refined craftmanshippe and a profound plethora of knowledge in his field of zoology and ability resurrect and capture with such accurate and fine detail, elusive creatures as the little known, but much feared snow flake screamer, or the elusive Baltic flying hoot-annaniae. Children and Adults marvel for hours, and years, with the stimulating perspective little seen before; as if taken from the hidden archives in the Royale Viktoriae and Albert Museum.
They make brilliant gifts for business associates, friends and lovers. These should be mandatory reading and viewing for all Doctoral students and Theologians.

To say that Scott Musgrove's paintings are a little strange is putting it mildly, they're a lot strange, but they're strange in a good way, strange in a way that will tickle your heart, give your funny bone a squeeze and generally put a smile on your face. I know his work makes me smile.

And that strange and weirdness that is Scott's work is best shared with a young one. My grandson and I have had lots of fun together with Scott's stuff. We look at one of his pictures, say of the Long Necked Lotus Loris, who knew there was such a thing as a water grown plant that had three heads, six bug out eyes and six ears that went extinct in 1901. You see something like that, if you're a granny with an imagination, and you make up a story about it as your grandchild drifts off to dreamland, but not one too scary, because you don't want to turn a dream into a nightmare.

The Delphic Okapi, which went extinct in 1825 has inspired the one really scary story I've told my grandson, because though not blue, it looks like Randal Bogs from `Monster's Inc'. He loves that story and I've told it several times, changing it as I go, but I always follow it with a story not so scary, usually a made up Star Wars story or maybe one about the Spangled Swamp Horse, I've made up a good one about her, which is almost as good as the story I made up about the Ophidius Delphicus which reminds us of the undersea creatures on the planet Naboo.

All in all, this is a fantastic book and if you share it with your children or grandchildren you'll get more enjoyment out of it then you ever could have imagined.