Title: Plants & Animals - Atlases of natural history in the age of LinnaeusPublished by: International Cultural Center, Krakow
Release Date: 2024
Contributors: Agata WASOWSKA-PAVLIK, Agnieszka FLUDA-KROKOS
Genre: design / typography
Pages: 300
ISBN13: 978-83-66419-70-4
17.990 HUF
On over 240 pages of the album colorful illustrations from natural history atlases were created with the skillful hand of old cartoonists and colorists during the period when modern plant and animal systematics was being born. You will find here reproductions on a one-to-one scale and large-format enlargements of microscopic details of fauna and flora, which in the days before the invention of photography fed human hunger for beauty. The graphics come from the collection of the Print Room of the PAU Scientific Library and the Polish Academy of Sciences in Krakow and the Library of the Institute of Systematics and Evolution of Animals of the Polish Academy of Sciences. The unknown collection is unique both because of the artistic level and the presence of many publications widely recognized as milestones of European natural history, including the most famous and graphically outstanding ornithological and botanical albums. The most interesting species have been added voices presenting botany and zoology issues or information about the cultural context. The story runs across the borders, through the centuries, across library catalogs to please the eye not only of seasoned lovers of old graphics, but also those who are even a little close to mindfulness to the world of nature.
