"The Kitāb Na't al-Ḥayawān is the earliest of a group of illustrated manuscripts dealing with the characteristics of animals and their medicinal uses. The present study considers both the confluence of textual traditions within this work and the stylistic and iconographic relati…
"The Kitāb Na't al-Ḥayawān is the earliest of a group of illustrated manuscripts dealing with the characteristics of animals and their medicinal uses. The present study considers both the confluence of textual traditions within this work and the stylistic and iconographic relati…
Surface encounters: thinking with animals and art
by ProQuest (Firm), Broglio, Ron
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Introduction: staying on the surface -- Meat matters: distance in Damien Hirst -- Body of thought: immanence and Carolee Schneemann -- Making space for animal dwelling: worlding with Snæbjørnsdøttir/Wilson -- Contact zones and living flesh: touch after Olly and Suzi -- A minor a…
Ron Broglio considers artists, including Damien Hirst, Carolee Schneemann, Olly and Suzi and Marcus Coates who take seriously the world of the animal on its own terms.
What it is like to be an animal? Ron Broglio wants to know from the inside, from underneath the fur and feathers. In examining this question, he bypasses the perspectives of biology or natural history to explore how one can construct an animal phenomenology, to think and feel as…
