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Gorgeous beasts animal bodies in historical perspective / edited by Joan B. Landes, Paula Young Lee, and Paul Youngquist.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, (c)2012.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 231 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271061405
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • QL85 .G674 2012
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Joan B. Landes -- Renaissance animal things / Erica Fudge -- The Cujo effect / Paul Youngquist -- On vulnerability : studies from life that ought not to be copied / Ron Broglio -- The rights of man and the rights of animality at the end of the eighteenth century / Pierre Serna ; translated by Vito Caiati and Joan B. Landes -- Calling the wild / Harriet Ritvo -- Trophies and taxidermy / Nigel Rothfels -- Fishing for biomass / Sajay Samuel and Dean Bavington -- Daniel Spoerri's Carnival of animals / Cecilia Novero -- A conversation with the artist Mark Dion / Joan B. Landes, Paula Young Lee, and Paul Youngquist.
Subject: "A collection of essays examining the place of animals in history and culture and their influence on life and art, from the Renaissance to the present"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

"A collection of essays examining the place of animals in history and culture and their influence on life and art, from the Renaissance to the present"--Provided by publisher.

Animal subjects : between nature and invention in Buffon's natural history illustrations / Joan B. Landes -- Renaissance animal things / Erica Fudge -- The Cujo effect / Paul Youngquist -- On vulnerability : studies from life that ought not to be copied / Ron Broglio -- The rights of man and the rights of animality at the end of the eighteenth century / Pierre Serna ; translated by Vito Caiati and Joan B. Landes -- Calling the wild / Harriet Ritvo -- Trophies and taxidermy / Nigel Rothfels -- Fishing for biomass / Sajay Samuel and Dean Bavington -- Daniel Spoerri's Carnival of animals / Cecilia Novero -- A conversation with the artist Mark Dion / Joan B. Landes, Paula Young Lee, and Paul Youngquist.

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