Republication of a 1911 work in which the author offers step-by-step instruction on the techniques of sculpting animals, discussing topics such as anatomy, motion, measurements, framing, tools, and plaster casting.
Machine generated contents note This pioneering volume explores the critical interface between animal and animality studies, marking out the terrain in relation to twentieth-century literature and film
The semiotics of animal representations
by Tüür, Kadri
fromNature, culture and literature
"The ways in which we represent animals say much about who we are, who we strive to be, and our often conflicting ideas about our relationships with nonhuman species. Whether the animal is seen as someone with whom we can relate and feel kinship or conceived of as the radical ot…
"Many Early Modern Europeans who during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries travelled to the New World left written or pictorial records of their encounters with a surprising fauna. The story told in this book is woven out of the threads of those texts and pictures. A New Wo…
How do mainstream film, television, advertising, videogames and newspapers engage with topics such as vivisection, hunting, animal performance, farming, meat eating and animal control? This book explores social, economic, ethical and cultural aspects of relationships between pop…
