![]() However, five years and one All Yesterdays later, and much of the work in DA2 has taken on a different character. A great volume of the work reproduced in the original Dinosaur Art featured reassuringly Paulian dinosaurs (not least because Paul himself was in there!). His trademark style rubbed off on seemingly everyone in the '80s, '90s and into the 2000s, so that his way of reconstructing dinosaurs became the definitive, ultimate way. ![]() Paul is one of the all-time titans of palaeoart, and with good reason. For one, it makes the very much living Greg Paul sound as if he's kicked the bucket, which he assuredly hasn't it also sounds a little derogatory towards his work. I do feel a little uncomfortable using the term 'post-Paulian', and not just because it's rather pretentious. What's perhaps most telling is how DA2 brings the series into the post-Paulian age. Is it just more of the same? Well, not quite there aren't too many surprises, and the format remains largely unchanged, but there is a little more stylistic variation than before, including a breakout into the world of model sculpting. Five years is a long time in the world of scientifically-informed life reconstructions of prehistoric animals, and so now editor Steve White and Titan Books are back with Dinosaur Art II: The Cutting Edge of Palaeoart. ![]() You may find it difficult to believe (or just unsettling to contemplate), but it's been five years since the publication of the original Dinosaur Art, that gorgeous-looking coffee table compendium of "The World's Greatest Palaeoart".
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