Art historical perspectives on the portrayal of animal death : 1550-1950 /
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| Author / Creator: | Grén, Roni, author. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2024. ©2024 |
| Description: | ix, 188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies Routledge advances in art and visual studies. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13567431 |
| Summary: | This study concentrates on the discourses around animal death in arts and the ways they changed over time. Chapter topics span from religious symbolism to natural history cabinets, from hunting laws to animal rights, from economic history to formalist views on art. In other words, the book asks why artists have represented animal death in visual culture, maintaining that the practice has, through the whole era, been a crucial part of the understanding of our relation to the world and our identity as humans. This is the first truly integrative book-length examination of the depiction of dead animals in Western art. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, animal studies, and cultural history. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 188 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781032657790 1032657790 9781032657813 1032657812 9781032657837 |
