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Enlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art - Sensation, Matter, and Knowledge (Paperback)
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Enlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art - Sensation, Matter, and Knowledge (Paperback)
Series: Material Culture of Art and Design
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How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question,
which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers in Western Europe, also
emerged as a key theme in depictions of animals in
eighteenth-century art. This book examines the ways in which
painters, sculptors, porcelain modelers, and other decorative
designers portrayed animals as sensing subjects who physically
confirmed the value of material experience. The independent agency
of animals with their own right to free existence, a topic of
growing urgency in our own era, emerges in striking and often
surprising ways within this early nexus of artistic
experimentation. The sensual style known today as the Rococo
encouraged the proliferation of animals as exemplars of empirical
inquiry in the eighteenth century, ranging from the popular subject
of the monkey artist to the alchemical wonders of the life-sized
porcelain animals created for the Saxon court. Examining writings
on sensory knowledge by La Mettre, Condillac, Diderot and other
philosophers side by side with depictions of the animal in art,
Cohen argues that artists promoted the animal as a sensory,
thinking subject while also validating the material basis of their
own professional practice.
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