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The Human Animal in Western Art and Science (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,318
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The Human Animal in Western Art and Science (Hardcover): Martin Kemp

The Human Animal in Western Art and Science (Hardcover)

Martin Kemp

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From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. But the comparisons run both ways, as metaphors, stories, and images--as well as scientific theories--throughout history remind us that humans often act like animals, and that the line separating them is not as clear as we'd like to pretend.
Here Martin Kemp explores a stunning range of images and ideas to demonstrate just how deeply these underappreciated links between humans and other fauna are embedded in our culture. Tracing those interconnections among art, science, and literature, Kemp leads us on a dazzling tour of Western thought, from Aristotelian physiognomy and its influence on phrenology to the Great Chain of Being and Darwinian evolution. We learn about the racist anthropology underlying a familiar Degas sculpture, see paintings of a remarkably simian Judas, and watch Mowgli, the man-child from Kipling's "The Jungle Book," exhibit the behaviors of the beasts who raised him. Like a kaleidoscope, Kemp uses these stories to refract, reconfigure, and echo the essential truth that the way we think about animals inevitably inflects how we think about people, and vice versa.
Loaded with vivid illustrations and drawing on sources from Hesiod to La Fontaine, Leonardo to P. T. Barnum, "The Human Animal in Western Art and Science" is a fascinating, eye-opening reminder of our deep affinities with our fellow members of the animal kingdom.

General

Imprint: University of Chicago Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: September 2007
First published: September 2007
Authors: Martin Kemp
Dimensions: 286 x 222 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-43033-1
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Myths & mythology
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Customs & folklore > Folklore
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Animals & society > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Iconography, subjects depicted in art > Nature in art, still life, landscapes & seascapes > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Myths & mythology
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LSN: 0-226-43033-2
Barcode: 9780226430331

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