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Animals and Artists : An Exploration of Impossible Encounters.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bristol : Intellect, Limited, 2022Copyright date: ©2022Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (204 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781789386394
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Animals and ArtistsDDC classification:
  • 704.9432
LOC classification:
  • N7660 .A855 2022
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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