The Giraffe In History And Art

The giraffe has always looked like a visitor from elsewhere. A strange, elegant creature endures. In The Giraffe in History and Art, Berthold Laufer presents an illustrated natural history book born of early twentieth century scholarship that traces giraffes in world culture and the wider history of exotic animals. At once an art history reference and a lucid study of animal symbolism in art, Laufer maps cross-cultural animal imagery across global art traditions, linking visual forms to tra...