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Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures: 1,087 Renderings from Historic Sources (Dover Pictorial Archive) Paperback – October 1, 1981
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Drawing on centuries of history, this work is an encyclopedic collection — undoubtedly the largest royalty-free collection of its kind — of devils, dragons, mythical creatures, fanciful beasts, animal-gods, totemic figures, and other supernatural beasts from the darker regions of man's imagination. Spanning many cultures and eras, the collection ranges from prehistoric rock paintings to the drawings of Max Ernst, from the masks of black Africa to the gargoyles of Notre Dame.
This volume incudes over 1,000 renderings of designs from ancient Egypt, Greece, and the Middle East: winged lions, harpies, griffins, satyrs, dragons, and more. Medieval centuries are represented by a wealth of monsters, demons, centaurs, and other creatures from The Book of Kells, anonymous Viking artists, and the works of Hieronymus Bosch, Dürer, and others. Global in scope, this vast trove also includes hundreds of non-European imagery: papier-mache masks from Latin America, Oriental deities and demons, feathered serpents from pre-Columbian Aztec and Mayan sources, Navajo sand paintings, and more.
- Print length160 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherDover Publications
- Publication dateOctober 1, 1981
- Dimensions9.5 x 0.25 x 12.5 inches
- ISBN-100486241742
- ISBN-13978-0486241746
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Drawing on centuries of history, this work is an encyclopedic collection—undoubtedly the largest royalty-free collection of its kind—of devils, dragons, mythical creatures, fanciful beasts, animal-gods, totemic figures, and other supernatural beasts from the darker regions of man's imagination. Spanning many cultures and eras, the collection ranges from prehistoric rock paintings to the drawings of Max Ernst, from the masks of black Africa to the gargoyles of Notre Dame.
This volume incudes over 1,000 renderings of designs from ancient Egypt, Greece, and the Middle East: winged lions, harpies, griffins, satyrs, dragons, and more. Medieval centuries are represented by a wealth of monsters, demons, centaurs, and other creatures from The Book of Kells, anonymous Viking artists, and the works of Hieronymus Bosch, Dürer, and others. Global in scope, this vast trove also includes hundreds of non-European imagery: papier-mache masks from Latin America, Oriental deities and demons, feathered serpents from pre-Columbian Aztec and Mayan sources, Navajo sand paintings, and more.
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- Publisher : Dover Publications; First Edition (October 1, 1981)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 160 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0486241742
- ISBN-13 : 978-0486241746
- Item Weight : 1.02 pounds
- Dimensions : 9.5 x 0.25 x 12.5 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #883,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #289 in Graphic Design Clip Art (Books)
- #1,122 in Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions
- #2,120 in Folklore & Mythology Studies
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Drawback would be since these are 40 years old books, the pages are a bit yellowish.
edited: -1 There are lots of editing errors, showing wrong number linked to the wrong pictures. Some are obvious like the butterfly man. Also lots of reference don't show date, and featuring pages may skip around like you're in Europe then jump to Latin America for a few pages, then go to Muslim and Africa, the oragizing is erratic.
There is lack of medieval European wild men, cyclops and alike despite lots of bipeds are featured.
Also near modern art is sometimes featured, a 1981 book featuring 1944 drawing, the gap's less than 40 years that modern we'd have Dungeons and dragons as history art! Not really historic for those engravings, would rather get more obscure things.
A unique conversation piece.
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Ok it's not an expensive edition but I was quite disappointed
Big Book of Dragons, Monsters, and Other Mythical Creatures
は、想像上の生き物という同じコンセプトですが
こちらの方が画像数が多く、取り上げられている範囲も広いです。
例えば、ピカソやミロ、ボッシュやデューラー、北斎の作品まで収録されています。
が、表紙にRenderingsと断ってあるように、オリジナルとはかなり違ったものになってはいます。
北斎にしても毛筆や版画の味わいは消えてしまい、その分迫力も半減しているのが残念。
でも芸術作品ではなく、網羅的なリストと割り切れば
一冊でこれだけの画像を見ることができるのはかなりありがたいです。
(個人的にはラテンアメリカの仮面が気に入っています)
パラパラ眺めるには絶好の本ですが
ページの下にそれぞれの出典が記されているだけで
その生き物がどういった意味を持つのかといった説明はないので
詳しく知りたい人は自分で調べる必要があるかも。
私は絵だけでも飽きないですが。








