The Paleoart of Julius Csotonyi @ Amazon
Csotonyi won the Lazendorf PaleoArt prize for his illustrations in 2010 and 2012. He’s both an artist and a scientist. He has a PhD in Microbiology. There’s a lot of reasons to be jealous of his talent but the summary is this – he’s very good.
If you’ve Titan Books’ Dinosaur Art: The World’s Greatest Paleoart then you’ll already have a sample of Csotonyi’s style and both the Icarosarusus and Cretaceousi digital illustrations in Geek Native’s gallery are a good representation of his style.
In this up-to-date monograph we now have access to not only carefully collected Julius Csotonyi works but access to never see before material.
This may be an art book but it oozes science. We’ve a foreword from the Curator of Vertebrate Palaeontology at the Royal Ontario Museum, Dr David C Evans and an Introduction from Dr Robert Bakker (who was among the advisors for Jurassic Park). I really enjoyed the illustrations but the wonder of the book is the combination of illustration and information. This is an authoritative masterpiece and speaks very clearly to my geeky collector gene.
A good way to get to grips with the book via a review is with a quick but filtered video tour. The video below was put together by Google+ auto awesome, uses a colour filter and incomplete illustrations but should give a feel of the hardback.
Disclaimer: My copy of the The Paleoart of Julius Csotonyi was provided for review. Julius Csotonyi & Steve White, Hardback 156pp. Titan Books £24.99.
