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Format: 1 online resource (258 p.) : , 12 color/38 b&w illustrations

ISBN: 9780271061405

Series Statement: Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures ; 2

Content: Gorgeous Beasts takes a fresh look at the place of animals in history and art. Refusing the traditional subordination of animals to humans, the essays gathered here examine a rich variety of ways animals contribute to culture: as living things, as scientific specimens, as food, weapons, tropes, and occasions for thought and creativity. History and culture set the terms for this inquiry. As history changes, so do the ways animals participate in culture. Gorgeous Beasts offers a series of discontinuous but probing studies of the forms their participation takes. This collection presents the work of a wide range of scholars, critics, and thinkers from diverse disciplines: philosophy, literature, history, geography, economics, art history, cultural studies, and the visual arts. By approaching animals from such different perspectives, these essays broaden the scope of animal studies to include specialists and nonspecialists alike, inviting readers from all backgrounds to consider the place of animals in history and art. Combining provocative critical insights with arresting visual imagery, Gorgeous Beasts advances a challenging new appreciation of animals as co-inhabitants and co-creators of culture.Aside from the editors, the contributors are Dean Bavington, Ron Broglio, Mark Dion, Erica Fudge, Cecilia Novero, Harriet Ritvo, Nigel Rothfels, Sajay Samuel, and Pierre Serna.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , One. Animal Subjects: Between Nature and Invention in Buffon’s Natural History Illustrations -- , Two. Renaissance Animal Things -- , Three. The Cujo Effect -- , Four. On Vulnerability: Studies from Life That Ought Not to Be Copied -- , Five. The Rights of Man and the Rights of Animality at the End of the Eighteenth Century -- , Six. Calling the Wild -- , Seven. Trophies and Taxidermy -- , Eight. Fishing for Biomass -- , Nine. Daniel Spoerri’s Carnival of Animals -- , A Conversation wit h the Artist Mark Dion -- , Notes -- , Bibliography -- , About the Contributors -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9780271061405

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271061405

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271061405