Animals and Artists: An Exploration of Impossible Encounters Atkinson Elizabeth Eleanor Jacqueline
A discussion of modern and contemporary artworks that challenge traditional representations of nonhuman animals and expose human viewers to animal otherness.This book argues that the individuated and…
Specifikacia Animals and Artists: An Exploration of Impossible Encounters Atkinson Elizabeth Eleanor Jacqueline
A discussion of modern and contemporary artworks that challenge traditional representations of nonhuman animals and expose human viewers to animal otherness.This book argues that the individuated and discrete human self in possession of consciousness, rationality, empathy, a voice, and a face, is open to challenge by nonhuman capacities such as distributed cognition, gender ambiguity, metamorphosis, mimicry, and avian speech. In traditional philosophy, animals represent all that is lacking in humankind. However, Animals and Artists argues that just because humans frame "the animal" as a negative term does not mean that animals have no meaning in themselves. Rather animals, in their very unknowability, mark the limits of human thinking.By combining art analysis with poststructuralist, posthumanist, and animal studies theories, Atkinson decenters the human and
An Alphabet of Animals