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The Human Animal in Western Art and Science (Louise Smith Bross Lecture Series)
Martin Kemp
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Hardcover. From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. This book explores a range of images and ideas to demonstrate just how deeply these underappreciated links between humans and other fauna are embedded in our culture. Series: Louise Smith Bross Lecture S. Num Pages: 320 pages, 187 halftones. BIC Classification: AGN; JFFZ; JFHF; PSV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 286 x 222 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1438.
From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. But the comparisons run both ways, as metaphors, stories, and images - as well as scientific theories - throughout history remind us that humans often act like animals, and that the line separating them is not as clear as we'd like to pretend. Here, Martin Kemp explores a stunning range of images and ideas to demonstrate just how deeply these underappreciated links between humans and other fauna are embedded in our culture. Tracing those ... Read more
From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. But the comparisons run both ways, as metaphors, stories, and images - as well as scientific theories - throughout history remind us that humans often act like animals, and that the line separating them is not as clear as we'd like to pretend. Here, Martin Kemp explores a stunning range of images and ideas to demonstrate just how deeply these underappreciated links between humans and other fauna are embedded in our culture. Tracing those ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Series
Louise Smith Bross Lecture S.
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226430331
SKU
V9780226430331
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About Martin Kemp
Martin Kemp is professor of the history of art at University of Oxford and the author of many books, including, most recently, Seen and Unseen: Visual Angles on Art and Science and Visualizations: The "Nature" Book of Science and Art.
Reviews for The Human Animal in Western Art and Science (Louise Smith Bross Lecture Series)
"This fascinating and unprecedented study is a model of true interdisciplinarity, illuminating a strain of thought that has received little attention. It compellingly demonstrates how utterly central questions about the relationship between humans and animals have been and continue to be within larger philosophical debates. A significant contribution to the history of ideas." - Rachael Ziady DeLue, Princeton University"