Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (256 pages)
Ausgabe:
First edition
Ausgabe:
Also published in print
ISBN:
9781350203617
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9781350203594
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9781350203624
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9781350203587
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1350203580
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9781350203600
Serie:
Material culture of art and design
Inhalt:
Introduction -- 1. The Social Animal -- 2. The Sensitive Animal -- 3. Monkey Artists -- 4. The Language of Brutes -- 5. Animating Porcelain -- 6. The Soul of Matter Conclusion Bibliography Index
Inhalt:
"How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question, which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers, also emerged as a key theme in depictions of animals in eighteenth-century art. This book examines the ways in which painters such as Chardin, as well as sculptors, porcelain modelers, and other decorative designers portrayed animals as sensing subjects who physically confirmed the value of material experience. The sensual style known today as the Rococo encouraged the proliferation of animals as exemplars of empirical inquiry, ranging from the popular subject of the monkey artist to the alchemical wonders of the life-sized porcelain animals created for the Saxon court. Examining writings on sensory knowledge by La Mettre, Condillac, Diderot and other philosophers side by side with depictions of the animal in art, Cohen argues that artists promoted the animal as a sensory subject while also validating the material basis of their own professional practice"--
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Also published in print.
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Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781350203624
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350203624
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350203617
