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Bestiary : animals in art from the Ice Age to our age
Here is a wonderful visual, thematic exploration of animals - real, surreal and imaginary - as depicted on beautiful ritual objects and works of art. Famous artworks mix with little-seen artefacts from every age and around the globe, offering a fresh perspective and new comparisons to stimulate the mind. Art historian Christopher Masters is a wonderfully clear and informative guide, illuminating familiar masterpieces and bringing lesser-known treasures into the light. Arranged thematically into five chapters, his book depicts animals in intelligent pairings and groupings of images that encourage the reader to find and learn the cultural context and connections between the origins of many different civilizations. An ancient Egyptian bronze divine cat sits next to a 19th-century print of English domestic feline bliss; a miniature Ice Age mammoth sits with a wild horse from the Palaeolithic era; the royal lion hunt is played across the walls of Ashurbanipal's palace in Assyrian Nineveh; a Minoan acrobat leaps onto the back of a 3,500-year-old bull; while a Roman marble gives vivid life to the Persian legend of Mithras and the Bull.
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Animals and Artists
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 Painlevé scholars, Surrealist enthusiasts, non-academics who are concerned about the human-animal relationship, the environment or larger identity politics issues.
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Art for animals : visual culture and animal advocacy, 1870-1914
Animal rights activists today regularly use visual imagery in their efforts to shape the public's understanding of what it means to be \"kind,\" \"cruel,\" and \"inhumane\" toward animals. Art for Animals explores the early history of this form of advocacy through the images and the people who harnessed their power.
Following in the footsteps of earlier-formed organizations like the RSPCA and ASPCA, animal advocacy groups such as the Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection made significant use of visual art in literature and campaign materials. But, enabled by new and improved technologies and techniques, they took the imagery much further than their predecessors did, turning toward vivid, pointed, and at times graphic depictions of human-animal interactions. Keri Cronin explains why the activist community embraced this approach, details how the use of such tools played a critical role in educational and reform movements in the United States, Canada, and England, and traces their impact in public and private spaces. Far from being peripheral illustrations of points articulated in written texts or argued in impassioned speeches, these photographs, prints, paintings, exhibitions, \"magic lantern\" slides, and films were key components of animal advocacy at the time, both educating the general public and creating a sense of shared identity among the reformers.
Uniquely focused on imagery from the early days of the animal rights movement and filled with striking visuals, Art for Animals sheds new light on the history and development of modern animal advocacy.
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Origami land and sea animals
\"A symbol key and a description of materials introduce readers to origami before they dive into step-by-step instructions illustrated with full-color diagrams to create animals from land and sea\"--Amazon.com.
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A Jewish Bestiary
\"Ask the beast and it will teach thee, and the birds of heaven
and they will tell thee.\" -Job 12:7
In the Middle Ages, the bestiary achieved a popularity second
only to that of the Bible. In addition to being a kind of
encyclopedia of the animal kingdom, the bestiary also served as a
book of moral and religious instruction, teaching human virtues
through a portrayal of an animal's true or imagined behavior. In
A Jewish Bestiary , Mark Podwal revisits animals, both real
and mythical, that have captured the Jewish imagination through the
centuries.
Originally published in 1984 and called \"broad in learning and
deep in subtle humor\" by the New York Times , this updated
edition of A Jewish Bestiary features new full-color
renderings of thirty-five creatures from Hebraic legend and lore.
The illustrations are accompanied by entertaining and instructive
tales drawn from biblical, talmudic, midrashic, and kabbalistic
sources. Throughout, Podwal combines traditional Jewish themes with
his own distinctive style. The resulting juxtaposition of art with
history results in a delightful and enlightening bestiary for the
twenty-first century.
From the ant to the ziz, herein are the creatures that exert a
special force on the Jewish fancy.
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Ancient Egyptian Animal Fables
This book examines the depictions of anthropomorphised animals found on ostraca and papyri from Deir el-Medina and considers their narrative and artistic purpose within the religious environment of New Kingdom Thebes.
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Desert origami
Offers step-by-step instructions for desert animal origami projects, including camels, vultures, and tortoises.
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Animals as Disguised Symbols in Renaissance Art
The tenacity of medieval animal iconography in the Renaissance, disguised under the veil of genre, narrative and allegory, is demonstrated in this book. A comprehensive introduction to sources precedes case studies illustrating traditional animal symbolism in Renaissance masterpieces.
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