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Record Nr.

UNINA9910502664003321

Autore

Johnson Linda

Titolo

Art, Ethics and the Human-Animal Relationship / / by Linda Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2021

ISBN

9783030788339

3030788334

Edizione

[1st ed. 2021.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 pages)

Collana

The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series, , 2634-6680

Disciplina

704.9432

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Ethics

Animal welfare - Moral and ethical aspects

Arts

Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics

Animal Ethics

Fine Art

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Chapter 1: Introduction -- 2. Chapter 2: A New Breed: The Cat as Scapegoat in Edenic and Utopian Imagery -- 3. Chapter 3: Virtue and Vice in High Couture -- 4. Chapter 4: Transformational Approaches: Equine Speciesism -- 5. Chapter 5: Looking Askance: The Changing Shape Of "Meat" In Dutch Still Life Painting -- 6. Chapter 6: Historical Processes: Embodied /Embedded -- 7. Chapter 7: Absent Referents: Bristly Brushes -- 8. Chapter 8: Conclusion: Darkness into Light -- .

Sommario/riassunto

'An outstanding work. Brilliant, scholarly, and insightful. Linda Johnson has established herself as the leading art historian of our complex relationship with animals. Her work shows how art can enhance as well as denigrate the status of other species. She has opened up a whole new field of artistic endeavour.' - Professor Andrew Linzey, Director of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, UK This book examines the works of major artists between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as important barometers of individual and collective values toward non-human life. Once viewed as merely representational, these works can



also be read as tangential or morally instrumental by way of formal analysis and critical theories. Chapter Two demonstrates the discrimination toward large and small felines in Genesis and The Book of Revelation. Chapter Three explores the cruel capture of free roaming animals and how artists depicted their furs, feathersand shells in costume as symbols of virtue and vice. Chapter Four identifies speciest beliefs between donkeys and horses. Chapter Five explores the altered Dutch kitchen spaces and disguised food animals in various culinary constructs in still life painting. Chapter Six explores the animal substances embedded in pigments. Chapter Seven examines animals in absentia-in the crafting of brushes. The book concludes with the fish paintings of William Merritt Chase whose glazing techniques demonstrate an artistic approach that honors fishes as sentient beings.