The shell; five hundred million years of inspired design / by Hugh and Marguerite Stix and R. Tucker Abbott. Photos. by H. Landshoff.
Presents a profusely illustrated introduction to shells. Includes a brief description of shell history, shell lore, and their influence on art.
Record details
- Physical Description: 106 unnumbered pages. : 188 plates (some color) illustrations. ; 28 x 30 cm
- Publisher: New York : Abrams, [1968?]
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Bibliography by R.T. Abbott: pages 97-100.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Shells and man -- Shells as an economic factor -- A religious symbol -- Pre-Columbian America -- Middle ages: St. James and the scallop shell -- Heraldry -- The Renaissance -- The late Renaissance and the Baroque -- The eighteenth century: Rococo -- The Victorian approach -- The emerging science of malacology -- The shell in the twentieth century.
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- Illustrated works.
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