Gorgeous beasts : animal bodies in historical perspective /
"A collection of essays examining the place of animals in history and culture and their influence on life and art, from the Renaissance to the present"--Provided by publisher.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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University Park, Pennsylvania :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2012.
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| Series: | Animalibus ;
v. 2. |
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Table of Contents:
- Animal subjects : between nature and invention in Buffon's natural history illustrations
- Renaissance animal things
- The Cujo effect
- On vulnerability : studies from life that ought not to be copied
- The rights of man and the rights of animality at the end of the eighteenth century
- Calling the wild
- Trophies and taxidermy
- Fishing for biomass
- Daniel Spoerri's Carnival of animals
- A conversation with the artist Mark Dion.