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The Cry of Nature
Stephen F. Eisenman
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Description for The Cry of Nature
Paperback. The Cry of Nature documents and explores the making of animal rights over the course of 300 years. Engaging the elds of biology, ethnology, anthropology, economics, philosophy and art history, it is both a survey and a closely argued examination of human and animal relationships. Num Pages: 256 pages, 100 colour. BIC Classification: AGN; JFFZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 550.
The Cry of Nature reveals how humans engaged in the struggle for animal emancipation and examines for the first time the role of visual art in the growth of animal rights. Artists from Hogarth to Soutine, and Gericault to Picasso, represented animals' suffering and death, as well as their pleasure and individuality. Embracing the lessons of Montaigne, Rousseau, Blake, Darwin, Freud and many others, they proposed that humans and animals have a shared evolutionary heritage of sentience, intelligence and empathy, and deserve equal access to the domain of moral rights. From the mid-eighteenth century a new and more compassionate ... Read more
The Cry of Nature reveals how humans engaged in the struggle for animal emancipation and examines for the first time the role of visual art in the growth of animal rights. Artists from Hogarth to Soutine, and Gericault to Picasso, represented animals' suffering and death, as well as their pleasure and individuality. Embracing the lessons of Montaigne, Rousseau, Blake, Darwin, Freud and many others, they proposed that humans and animals have a shared evolutionary heritage of sentience, intelligence and empathy, and deserve equal access to the domain of moral rights. From the mid-eighteenth century a new and more compassionate ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780231952
SKU
V9781780231952
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99-15
About Stephen F. Eisenman
Stephen F. Eisenman is Professor of Art History at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. His books include The Abu Ghraib Effect (Reaktion Books, 2007).
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