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Explore the beauty and diversity of the animal world through more than 300 captivating images from across time and from every corner of the globe
Animal: Exploring the Zoological World is a visually stunning and broad-ranging survey that explores and celebrates humankind's ongoing fascination with animals. Since our very first moments on Earth, we have been compelled to make images of the curious beasts around us - whether as sources of food, danger, wonder, power, scientific significance or companionship. This carefully curated selection of images, chosen by an international panel of experts, delves into our shared past to tell the story of animal life.
From the first cave paintings, extraordinary medieval bestiaries and exquisite scientific illustration, to iconic paintings, contemporary artworks and the incredible technological advancements that will shape our futures together, the huge range of works reflects the beauty and variety of animals themselves – including butterflies, hummingbirds, bats, frogs, tigers, dogs, jellyfish, spiders and elephants, to name a few.
Arranged in a curated and thought-provoking sequence, this engaging compilation includes iconic works by some of the great names in zoology, such as Conrad Gesner, Charles Darwin and John James Audubon, as well as celebrated artists and photographers, indigenous cultures and lesser-known figures who have made important contributions to the study and representation of animals throughout history.
Interdisciplinary essays on Manuela Infante’s award-winning play
explore the relationship between critical plant studies and
performance art in the Anthropocene  Since its first staging
in 2016, Estado Vegetal, Manuela Infante’s riveting piece of
experimental performance art, has expanded philosophical thinking
into a fully-fledged artistic inquiry of nonanthropocentric being.
Through Infante’s polyvocal monologue, acted with impetus by
Marcela Salinas, plants are charged with an agency capable of
uprooting culturally grounded conceptions of the world in the face
of incommensurable trauma and loss. Â This first book
dedicated to Infante’s plant-focused performance features eight
essays by scholars, poets, and artists whose practices draw from
research fields as disparate as new materialism, anthropogenic
feminism, queer studies, and speculative realism. Including an
interview with Infante, the full playscript, and stills from the
performance, Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant-Thinking reveals
the roles that plants in art can play in productively reconfiguring
human–nonhuman relations within current anthropogenic
perspectives.  Infante’s performance is a perfect case
study and reference point for anyone interested in exploring the
complexities of plant-thinking through alternative and experimental
avenues. Furthermore, this book is at once a critical plant studies
primer and an artistic problematization of the philosophical
questions that have been central to the latest multidisciplinary
discussions on plant-being. Â Contributors: Maaike Bleeker,
Utrecht U; Lucy Cotter, Portland State U; Prudence Gibson, UNSW
Sydney; Michael Marder, U of the Basque Country; Dawn Sanders, U of
Gothenburg; Catriona Sandilands, York U; Sibila Sotomayor Van
Rysseghem, colectivo LASTESIS; Mandy-Suzanne Wong.
Posthumanism synthesizes philosophical, literary, and artistic
responses to technological advancements, globalization, and mass
extinction in the Anthropocene. It asks what it can mean to be
human in an increasingly more-than-human world that has lost faith
in the ideal of humanism, the autonomous, rational subject, and it
models generative alternatives cognizant of the demands of social
and ecological justice. Amid rising social justice movements,
collapsing economic structures, and the dwindling power of cultural
institutions, posthumanism advances thinking on new and previously
unenvisionable challenges. Posthumanism in Art and Science is an
anthology of indispensable statements and artworks that provide an
unprecedented mapping of this intellectual and aesthetic
development in a global context. It features groundbreaking
theorists including Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, Mel Y. Chen,
Michael Marder, Alexander Weheliye, Anna Tsing, Timothy Morton, N.
Katherine Hayles, Bruno Latour, Francesca Ferrando, and Cary Wolfe,
as well as innovative, influential artists and curators such as
Yvonne Rainer, Skawennati, Chus Martinez, William Wegman, Nandipha
Mntambo, Cassils, Pauline Oliveros, and Doo-sung Yoo. These
provocative and compelling works, including previously unpublished
interviews and essays, speak to the ongoing conceptual and
political challenge of posthumanist thinking in a time of
unprecedented cultural and environmental crises. An essential
primer and reference for educators, students, artists, and art
enthusiasts, this volume offers a powerful framework for rethinking
anthropocentric certitudes and reenvisioning equitable and
sustainable futures.
Posthumanism synthesizes philosophical, literary, and artistic
responses to technological advancements, globalization, and mass
extinction in the Anthropocene. It asks what it can mean to be
human in an increasingly more-than-human world that has lost faith
in the ideal of humanism, the autonomous, rational subject, and it
models generative alternatives cognizant of the demands of social
and ecological justice. Amid rising social justice movements,
collapsing economic structures, and the dwindling power of cultural
institutions, posthumanism advances thinking on new and previously
unenvisionable challenges. Posthumanism in Art and Science is an
anthology of indispensable statements and artworks that provide an
unprecedented mapping of this intellectual and aesthetic
development in a global context. It features groundbreaking
theorists including Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, Mel Y. Chen,
Michael Marder, Alexander Weheliye, Anna Tsing, Timothy Morton, N.
Katherine Hayles, Bruno Latour, Francesca Ferrando, and Cary Wolfe,
as well as innovative, influential artists and curators such as
Yvonne Rainer, Skawennati, Chus Martinez, William Wegman, Nandipha
Mntambo, Cassils, Pauline Oliveros, and Doo-sung Yoo. These
provocative and compelling works, including previously unpublished
interviews and essays, speak to the ongoing conceptual and
political challenge of posthumanist thinking in a time of
unprecedented cultural and environmental crises. An essential
primer and reference for educators, students, artists, and art
enthusiasts, this volume offers a powerful framework for rethinking
anthropocentric certitudes and reenvisioning equitable and
sustainable futures.
Taxidermy, once the province of natural history and dedicated to
the pursuit of lifelike realism, has recently resurfaced in the
world of contemporary art,culture, and interior design. In
Speculative Taxidermy, Giovanni Aloi offers a comprehensive mapping
of the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of
taxidermy in contemporary art. Drawing on the speculative turn in
philosophy and recovering past alternative histories of art and
materiality from a biopolitical perspective, Aloi theorizes
speculative taxidermy: a powerful interface that unlocks new
ethical and political opportunities in human-animal relationships
and speaks to how animal representation conveys the urgency of
climate change, capitalist exploitation, and mass extinction. A
resolutely nonanthropocentric take on the materiality of one of the
most controversial mediums in art, this approach relentlessly
questions past and present ideas of human separation from the
animal kingdom. It situates taxidermy as a powerful interface
between humans and animals, rooted in a shared ontological and
physical vulnerability. Carefully considering a select number of
key examples including the work of Nandipha Mntambo, Maria
Papadimitriou, Mark Dion, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Roni Horn, Oleg
Kulik, Steve Bishop, Snaebjornsdottir/Wilson, and Cole
Swanson,Speculative Taxidermy contextualizes the resilient presence
of animal skin in the gallery space as a productive opportunity to
rethink ethical and political stances in human-animal
relationships.
Taxidermy, once the province of natural history and dedicated to
the pursuit of lifelike realism, has recently resurfaced in the
world of contemporary art,culture, and interior design. In
Speculative Taxidermy, Giovanni Aloi offers a comprehensive mapping
of the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of
taxidermy in contemporary art. Drawing on the speculative turn in
philosophy and recovering past alternative histories of art and
materiality from a biopolitical perspective, Aloi theorizes
speculative taxidermy: a powerful interface that unlocks new
ethical and political opportunities in human-animal relationships
and speaks to how animal representation conveys the urgency of
climate change, capitalist exploitation, and mass extinction. A
resolutely nonanthropocentric take on the materiality of one of the
most controversial mediums in art, this approach relentlessly
questions past and present ideas of human separation from the
animal kingdom. It situates taxidermy as a powerful interface
between humans and animals, rooted in a shared ontological and
physical vulnerability. Carefully considering a select number of
key examples including the work of Nandipha Mntambo, Maria
Papadimitriou, Mark Dion, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Roni Horn, Oleg
Kulik, Steve Bishop, Snaebjornsdottir/Wilson, and Cole
Swanson,Speculative Taxidermy contextualizes the resilient presence
of animal skin in the gallery space as a productive opportunity to
rethink ethical and political stances in human-animal
relationships.
Lucian Freud's portraits are known for their spectacular detail and
unflinching gaze. Although Freud brought the same qualities to his
paintings and drawings of plants, flowers, and landscapes, these
are largely unknown. This elegant book shows how working with
plants emboldened Freud to experiment with style and composition.
Reproduced in sumptuous plates that allow readers to indulge in
exquisite detail, seventy-five works - including Two Plants,
Bananas, Cyclamen, The Painter's Garden, and Interior at Paddington
- reveal Freud's singular approach to plant life. Readers
unfamiliar with this aspect of Freud's work will find many
similarities to his portraits - earthy palettes, unconventional
rawness, and assiduous attention to detail. From the delicate
realism of the cyclamens' petals to the bold brushstrokes that
immortalize his overgrown garden, readers will appreciate Freud's
ability to portray plants in new and personal ways. Comparative
illustrations from throughout art history accompany essays on the
history of plants in art and an appreciation of Freud's oeuvre.
This monograph is a tremendous contribution to Freud's legacy, one
that will enrich his admirers' discernment while also introducing
his thoroughly original depictions of plants to a new audience.
Interdisciplinary essays on Manuela Infante’s award-winning play
explore the relationship between critical plant studies and
performance art in the Anthropocene  Since its first staging
in 2016, Estado Vegetal, Manuela Infante’s riveting piece of
experimental performance art, has expanded philosophical thinking
into a fully-fledged artistic inquiry of nonanthropocentric being.
Through Infante’s polyvocal monologue, acted with impetus by
Marcela Salinas, plants are charged with an agency capable of
uprooting culturally grounded conceptions of the world in the face
of incommensurable trauma and loss. Â This first book
dedicated to Infante’s plant-focused performance features eight
essays by scholars, poets, and artists whose practices draw from
research fields as disparate as new materialism, anthropogenic
feminism, queer studies, and speculative realism. Including an
interview with Infante, the full playscript, and stills from the
performance, Estado Vegetal: Performance and Plant-Thinking reveals
the roles that plants in art can play in productively reconfiguring
human–nonhuman relations within current anthropogenic
perspectives.  Infante’s performance is a perfect case
study and reference point for anyone interested in exploring the
complexities of plant-thinking through alternative and experimental
avenues. Furthermore, this book is at once a critical plant studies
primer and an artistic problematization of the philosophical
questions that have been central to the latest multidisciplinary
discussions on plant-being. Â Contributors: Maaike Bleeker,
Utrecht U; Lucy Cotter, Portland State U; Prudence Gibson, UNSW
Sydney; Michael Marder, U of the Basque Country; Dawn Sanders, U of
Gothenburg; Catriona Sandilands, York U; Sibila Sotomayor Van
Rysseghem, colectivo LASTESIS; Mandy-Suzanne Wong.
'Art is continually haunted by the animal', wrote Deleuze and
Guattari. Over the past two decades, animals have quite literally
invaded the gallery space, from Joseph Beuys' co-habiting with a
coyote, Janis Kounelli's instillation of live horses, Damien
Hirst's shark in formaldehyde to Mark Dion's natural history
displays and Marco Evaristti's 'goldfish in a blender'. In this
latest addition to the highly acclaimed 'Art and...' series,
Giovanni Aloi surveys the insistent presence of animals in the
world of contemporary art, exploring the leading concepts which
inform this emerging practice. From exhibitions featuring live
animals, to taxidermy, and interspecies communication, Giovanni
Aloi explores how animals feature in modern art with a range of
thought-provoking and innovative visual representations. Art and
Animals challenges ideas of identity, 'otherness' and civilisation
by explaining the role animals have occupied in our cultural
development and illustrating their presence in the visual arts
today.
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