An anthology that addresses and reassesses how animals were used and regarded in Renaissance culture, the contributors to this unusual collection challenge contemporary as well as historical views of the boundaries and hierarchies humans presume the natural world to contain.
Animals, as Levi-Strauss wrote, are good to think with. This collection addresses and reassesses the variety of ways in which animals were used and thought about in Renaissance culture, challenging contemporary as well as historical views of the boundaries and hierarchies humans…
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…