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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816312003321

Autore

Atkinson Elizabeth Eleanor Jacqueline

Titolo

Animals and Artists : An Exploration of Impossible Encounters / / Elizabeth Eleanor Jacqueline Atkinson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, England : , : Intellect Ltd, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9781789386394

9781789386370

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (204 pages)

Disciplina

743.6

Soggetti

Animals in art

Human-animal relationships

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.