Art, ethics and the human-animal relationship 1st ed.

Author

• Johnson, Linda

Additional Author(s)

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Publisher

Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, 2021

Language

English

ISBN

9783030788339

Series

The Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series

Subject(s)

• ANIMAL WELFARE--MORAL AND ETHICAL ASPECTS
• ANIMALS IN ART
• ART, MODERN--THEMES, MOTIVES

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Abstract

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, feathers and 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.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

1 online resource (xxv, 308 p.)

Dimension

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Other Desc.

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Summary / Review / Table of Content

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

Exemplar(s)

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1.	00620/22	704.9432 Lin	Online !	Available