Dinosaur Imagery: The Science of Lost Worlds and Jurassic Art: The Lanzendorf Collection
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* Art from the John Lanzendorf collection - the world's best
* Contributions from 20 leading paleontologists - each have written a short commentary on a certain piece of art
* Eye-pleasing layout - full pages of art are complemented by an accompanying page of commentary
John J. Lanzendorf
John Lanzendorf is a dinosaur art collector by avocation and a well-known hair stylist working from a salon along Chicago's famous Magnificent Mile. His collection and admittedly obsessive interest in dinosaurs are without equal. His active support of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology has been illustrated by three new Society awards intended for contributions to paleo-art.
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Dinosaur Imagery - John J. Lanzendorf
The Lanzendrof Collection
DINOSAUR IMAGERY
The Science of Lost Worlds and Jurassic Art
JOHN W. McCARTER, Jr.
President and CEO, The Field Museum, Chicago
Foreword by Philip J. Currie
Photography by Michael Tropea
Table of Contents
Cover image
Title page
DINOSAUR IMAGERY
Copyright
Dedication
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgments
Editor’s Note
Contributors
Chapter I: Extinct—but not Dinosaurs
Chapter II: Fearfully Great Lizards
of the Triassic
Chapter III: Jurassic Art
Chapter IV: A Cretaceous End to a Lost World
Epilogue
Related References
Credits & Contact Information
DINOSAUR IMAGERY
John Lanzendorf is synonymous with dinosaur art because he has made lasting contributions to this growing creative field. My first encounter with his incredible collection was memorable. Every nook and cranny, every wall and counter-top, was covered in dinosauriana. I was awestruck by the breadth of the collection and the depth of John’s commitment, his limitless energy, enthusiasm, and devotion to dino-art. His collection is without equal and certainly the most important in the country, if not the world.
JOHN W. McCARTER, Jr., President and CEO, The Field Museum, Chicago
Copyright
Cover Photo: Tyrannosaurus rex and Triceratops. © Michael Skrepnick (see pages 134-135).
Title Page Photo: Albertosaurus and ornithomids. © Brian Cooley (see page 96).
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Dedication
For Ruth Lanzendorf and Life Fellowship Church
Foreword
The word dinosaur
conjures up vivid images of fantastically large and bizarre monsters
in the minds of most people. The images rarely come directly from the fossilized bones, and are usually derived from portrayals done by artists in drawings, paintings, sculptures, and most recently, computer graphics. These are disseminated through a wide range of media, including museum displays, books, cartoons, comic books, movies, and toys. The fossil skeletons themselves are rarely complete and require a great deal of interpretation by the artist, and combined with the creative directives and competence of the artists, the images are not consistent. However, as our scientific understanding improves, so do the images.
Dinosaur art has been with us for more than a century and a half. It has taken on many forms: illustration of fossils, restoration of specimens, reconstructions of prehistoric animals as they may have appeared in life, and fanciful work of all types that includes dinosaurs in fictional settings. There are early examples in all categories that demonstrate how sophisticated some of this work had become, even in the formative years. These include the lithographic plates that illustrated the scientific papers of O. C. Marsh, the superb paintings and murals of Charles Knight, the full-size sculptures that Waterhouse Hawkins did for the Crystal Palace, and of course the animated Tyrannosaurus rex in the 1932 movie King Kong.
I cut my teeth on the artwork of Knight, which I studied for hours in a sticker book acquired by mail order when I was eleven years old. Knight, who did his first dinosaur art in 1897, worked closely with Henry Fairfield Osborn and other scientists to make his interpretations as accurate as possible. Aesthetically beautiful, his paintings capitalized on his knowledge of living animals and their environments to capture an essence of life that brought the animals to life. When I visited the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago in 1963, I was awestruck by his original murals. Later in my career, as a curator at the Provincial Museum of Alberta, I succeeded in bringing a Charles Knight art show to Edmonton. Sylvia Czerkas and the Los Angeles County Museum had assembled the artwork as a traveling exhibit.
The middle of the twentieth century was a relatively quiet time for dinosaur research, and there was a corresponding period of low activity in dinosaur illustration. Notable exceptions were the talented and influential book illustrator Zdenek Burian from Prague, and Rudolf Zallinger, whose mural at Yale University inspired a new generation of developing paleontologists. Knight, Burian, and others had such a profound influence on me that I can remember facing a dilemma in high school. As I climbed higher in my schooling, it became necessary to become progressively more specialized. Finally, I could no longer squeeze all of the art and science courses into my schedule. With some regret, I dropped my last art course and all dreams of becoming a great artist, and moved wholly into the science and math curriculum. When I started graduate studies under Dr. Robert Carroll at McGill University, I fortunately found some relief for my artistic inclinations because of the emphasis put on students to do their own specimen drawings. In fact, some of my colleagues occasionally joke of Bob Carroll’s school of art. I have always enjoyed doing my own illustrations, partially because it forces me to look at details of the specimen, and partially because I find it very relaxing.
With the advent of the Dinosaur Renaissance, a new crew of dinosaur artists let their imaginations go wild. These included Ely Kish and William Stout, who introduced dinosaurs to a whole new audience. Many of the artists were influenced by the young Turk
Robert T. Bakker, whose heretic
ideas and illustrations tore the lid off graphic interpretations of dinosaurs. Greg Paul