Gorgeous Beasts
Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective
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Gorgeous Beasts
Animal Bodies in Historical Perspective
About this book
Gorgeous Beasts takes a fresh look at the place of animals in history and art. Refusing the traditional subordination of animals to humans, the essays gathered here examine a rich variety of ways animals contribute to culture: as living things, as scientific specimens, as food, weapons, tropes, and occasions for thought and creativity. History and culture set the terms for this inquiry. As history changes, so do the ways animals participate in culture. Gorgeous Beasts offers a series of discontinuous but probing studies of the forms their participation takes.
This collection presents the work of a wide range of scholars, critics, and thinkers from diverse disciplines: philosophy, literature, history, geography, economics, art history, cultural studies, and the visual arts. By approaching animals from such different perspectives, these essays broaden the scope of animal studies to include specialists and nonspecialists alike, inviting readers from all backgrounds to consider the place of animals in history and art. Combining provocative critical insights with arresting visual imagery, Gorgeous Beasts advances a challenging new appreciation of animals as co-inhabitants and co-creators of culture.
Aside from the editors, the contributors are Dean Bavington, Ron Broglio, Mark Dion, Erica Fudge, Cecilia Novero, Harriet Ritvo, Nigel Rothfels, Sajay Samuel, and Pierre Serna.
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Table of contents
- COVER Front
- Series Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction (Joan B. Landes, Paula Young Lee, and Paul Youngquist)
- Notes to Introduction
- Chapter 1: Animal Subjects: Between Nature and Inventionin Buffon’s Natural History Illustrations (Joan B. Landes)
- Notes to Chapter 1
- Chapter 2: Renaissance Animal Things (Erica Fudge)
- Notes to Chapter 2
- Chapter 3: The Cujo Effect: (Paul Youngquist)
- Notes to Chapter 3
- Chapter 4: On Vulnerability: Studies from Life That Ought Not to Be Copied (Ron Broglio)
- Notes to Chapter 4
- Chapter 5: The Rights of Man and the Rights of Animality at the End of the Eighteenth Century (Pierre Serna; trans. Vito Caiati and Joan B. Landes)
- Notes to Chapter 5
- Chapter 6: Calling the Wild (Harriet Ritvo)
- Notes to Chapter 6
- Chapter 7: Trophies and Taxidermy (Nigel Rothfels)
- Notes to Chapter 7
- Chapter 8: Fishing for Biomass (Sajay Samuel and Dean Bavington)
- Notes to Chapter 8
- Chapter 9: Daniel Spoerri’s Carnival of Animals (Cecilia Novero)
- Notes to Chapter 9
- A Conversation with the Artist Mark Dion
- COLOR PLATES
- Notes
- Bibliography
- About the Contributers
- Index
- COVER Back