Art and Animals.

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 formaldehy...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Aloi, Giovanni
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : I.B. Tauris, 2011.
Series:Art and Series.
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Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Preface: Why Look at Animals Now?; 1. Caught up in Representation; 2. Taxidermy: Subjugated Wilderness; 3. Levels of Proximity; 4. An Uncomfortable Closeness; 5. The Animal that Therefore I am Not; 6. The Death of the Animal; 7. Conclusion In Conversation with Mark Dion
  • The culture of Nature; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography; Index.