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• ISBN13: 9780674030930
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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• Archaeological evidence of truly domestic dogs dates back to the Stone Age, when humans lived as bands of hunter-gatherers. The long association that followed, with dogs living alongside people as hunters and companions, guardians and guides, has a treasured place in history and myth—and in a wealth of art and artifacts that document and celebrate this ancient relationship.

  Dogs: History, Myth, Art explores these cultural expressions and reflections of our deep and long-standing interest in dogs. Here, in exquisite reproductions, are life-size sculptures and tiny engraved gems, ceramic floor tiles and stone wall-reliefs, gold ornaments and ceramic vessels, pocketknife handles and miniature paintings, all depicting dogs from prehistory to the present. Through these illustrations—drawn from the collections of the British Museum—author Catherine Johns considers the evolution of the species, its earliest interactions with human communities, its importance in history and culture, and its role in symbolism, mythology, and legend. Dogs’ wild cousins, wolves, jackals, and foxes, also play a role in this story, and so appear alongside their domestic counterparts in this book’s engaging tour of cultural perceptions and depictions of dogs.

  The juxtaposition and explanation of images as diverse as Greek pottery, Victorian jewelry, Assyrian sculpture, and Japanese netsuke, as well as drawings and paintings from 1850 bc to the twentieth century, illuminates our understanding of the place of dogs in human society around the world.

  (20081223)

ग्राहक क्रम:

• Informative, fun, colorful. This is a lovely book for almost anyone. It is scholarly but interesting. The illustrations are beautiful. It is comparatively short and easy to read through.
• Man s best friend throughout history. Drawing from the immense art collection from the British Museum, Catherine Johns has assembled a wide selection of statues, paintings, mosaics, busts, jewelry, and more, to illustrate man s love and need of the dog. Johns provides a great history of the dog, and its near relatives, but the true beauty of this book is just the variety of ways dogs have been portrayed through the ages and how they have become such a part of our cultural history, regardless of the culture. Chapters include Hunting Dogs, Working Dogs, Dogs and Gods, Myths and Monsters and Types and Breeds. There are smaller sections on Wolves, Foxes, and Jackals. There is something about the care that was taken so many centuries ago to portray a dog in stone or tile, that makes you feel that the artist was using his own dog as the model. The dog lover will find much to enjoy in this book, both informational, and artistic. And, the final image, that of a gravestone for a family dog, seems like it might have been something from a modern pet cemetery, but it is from the first or second century AD--a couple morning the death of their white hound Pearl. Even then, dogs were family.

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