TY - BOOK AU - Atkinson,Elizabeth Eleanor Jacqueline TI - Animals and Artists: An Exploration of Impossible Encounters SN - 9781789386394 AV - N7660 .A855 2022 U1 - 704.9432 PY - 2022/// CY - Bristol PB - Intellect, Limited KW - Animals in art KW - Human-animal relationships KW - Electronic books N1 - Cover -- Animals and Artists -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1. Octopus Reality: A Space Threatening Fragmentation -- Interlude 1: Encountering Radical Otherness -- 2. The Dangerous Alliance of Women and Insects -- Interlude 2: Unravelling the Secretions of the Silk/Worm -- 3. Spiders and Tomás Saraceno: Interfacing Nature and Culture through Art and Science -- Interlude 3: Hospitality for an Other -- 4. Deconstructing Logocentrism: Parrot Echoes -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Back Cover N2 - This book explores a selection of artistic representations of animals. Positioned within contemporary debates around the animal question, it challenges anthropocentric beliefs about the all-knowing, rational and speaking human subject and argues that the irrationality of animal worlds marks the very limits of human thinking. 42 b&w photographs UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=7145646 ER -