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The Postmodern Animal
Steve Baker
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Description for The Postmodern Animal
Paperback. Explores how animal imagery has been used in modern and contemporary art and performance, and in postmodern philosophy and literature, to suggest and shape ideas about identity and creativity. Series: Essays in Art & Culture. Num Pages: 208 pages, 58 black & white illustrations, 16 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: ACXJ8; JFC; PSV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 324.
In "The Postmodern Animal", Steve Baker explores how animal imagery has been used in modern and contemporary art and performance, and in postmodern philosophy and literature, to suggest and shape ideas about identity and creativity. Baker cogently analyses the work of such European and American artists as Olly and Suzi, Mark Dion, Paula Rego and Sue Coe, at the same time looking critically at the constructions, performances and installations of Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Beuys and other significant late twentieth-century artists. Baker's book draws parallels between the animal's place in postmodern art and poststructuralist theory, drawing on works as ... Read more
In "The Postmodern Animal", Steve Baker explores how animal imagery has been used in modern and contemporary art and performance, and in postmodern philosophy and literature, to suggest and shape ideas about identity and creativity. Baker cogently analyses the work of such European and American artists as Olly and Suzi, Mark Dion, Paula Rego and Sue Coe, at the same time looking critically at the constructions, performances and installations of Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Beuys and other significant late twentieth-century artists. Baker's book draws parallels between the animal's place in postmodern art and poststructuralist theory, drawing on works as ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Series
Essays in Art & Culture
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781861890603
SKU
V9781861890603
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Ref
99-50
About Steve Baker
Steve Baker is Professor in Historical and Critical Studies at the University of Central Lancashire and is the author of Picturing the Beast (1993).
Reviews for The Postmodern Animal
'This is a wonderful book ... Steve Baker provides the most cogent explanation so far of how the questioning of human identity ineluctably raises issues about animals ... He has given us a great gift, an understanding of a process unfolding during our own time.'
Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat
Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat