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Animals and Artists - An Exploration of Impossible Encounters (Hardcover, New edition)
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Animals and Artists - An Exploration of Impossible Encounters (Hardcover, New edition)
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Animals and Artists discusses a selection of modern and
contemporary artworks that challenge traditional representations of
nonhuman animals, and that expose human viewers to animal
otherness. It argues that the individuated and discrete human self
in possession of consciousness, rationality, empathy, a voice, and
a face, is open to challenge by nonhuman capacities such as
distributed cognition, gender ambiguity, metamorphosis, mimicry and
avian speech. In traditional philosophy, animals represent all that
is lacking in humankind. However, Animals and Artists argues that
just because humans frame 'the animal' as a negative term, their
binary opposite and everything that they are not, does not mean
that animals have no meaning in themselves. Rather, animals in
their very unknowability, mark the limits of human thinking. By
combining art analysis with poststructuralist, post humanist and
animal studies theories as well as scientific research, Elizabeth
decentres the human and establishes a new position where
differences are embraced. In our current moment of ecological
crisis, Animals and Artists brings readers into solidarity with
other animal species, among them spiders, silkworms, bees, parrots
and octopuses. The book raises empathy for other live forms,
drawing attention to the shared vulnerabilities of human and
nonhuman animals, and in so doing underlines the power of art to
bring about social change. Readers will include animal studies
scholars, artists, art historians, Jean Painleve scholars,
Surrealist enthusiasts, non-academics who are concerned about the
human-animal relationship, the environment or larger identity
politics issues.
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