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Beauty and the Beast: Human-Animal Relations as Revealed in Real Photo Postcards, 1905-1935
Robert Bogdan Arnold Arluke
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 344 pages, 359 black-&-white illustrations, notes, references, index. BIC Classification: AJC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1338.
From fairy tales to photography, nowhere is the complexity of human-animal relationships more apparent than in the creative arts. Art illuminates the nature and significance of animals in modern, Western thought, capturing the complicated union that has long existed between the animal kingdom and us. In Beauty and the Beast, authors Arluke and Bogdan explore this relationship through the unique lens of photo postcards. This visual medium offers an enormous and relatively untapped archive to document their subject compellingly. The importance of photo postcards goes beyond their abundance. Recognized as the "people’s photography", photo postcards were typically taken by photographers ... Read more
From fairy tales to photography, nowhere is the complexity of human-animal relationships more apparent than in the creative arts. Art illuminates the nature and significance of animals in modern, Western thought, capturing the complicated union that has long existed between the animal kingdom and us. In Beauty and the Beast, authors Arluke and Bogdan explore this relationship through the unique lens of photo postcards. This visual medium offers an enormous and relatively untapped archive to document their subject compellingly. The importance of photo postcards goes beyond their abundance. Recognized as the "people’s photography", photo postcards were typically taken by photographers ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
276
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815609810
SKU
V9780815609810
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About Robert Bogdan Arnold Arluke
Arnold Arluke is professor of sociology and anthropology at Northeastern University and Senior Research Fellow at the Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy. Robert Bogdan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Social Science and Education at Syracuse University. He is the author of Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People's Photography.
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