02293nam 2200445 450 991081631200332120240102112709.09781789386394(electronic bk.)9781789386370(MiAaPQ)EBC7145646(Au-PeEL)EBL7145646(CKB)25461707300041(EXLCZ)992546170730004120230701d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAnimals and Artists An Exploration of Impossible Encounters /Elizabeth Eleanor Jacqueline AtkinsonBristol, England :Intellect Ltd,[2022]©20221 online resource (204 pages)Print version: Atkinson, Elizabeth Eleanor Jacqueline Animals and Artists Bristol : Intellect Books,c2022 9781789386370 Includes bibliographical references.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.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.Animals in artHuman-animal relationshipsAnimals in art.Human-animal relationships.743.6Atkinson Elizabeth Eleanor Jacqueline1661845MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816312003321Animals and Artists4018015UNINA