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Displaying death and animating life : human-animal relations in art, science, and everyday life. Jane C. Desmond

Desmond, Jane C cop. 2016

Available at 33MQB MQB  Magasin  (N-A-037046 )

  • Title:
    Displaying death and animating life : human-animal relations in art, science, and everyday life. Jane C. Desmond
  • Author: Desmond, Jane C
  • Subjects: Relations homme-animal;
    Relations homme-animal -- Dans les médias;
    Relations homme-animal -- Dans l'art;
    Human-animal relationships;
    Human-animal relationships in mass media;
    Human-animal relationships in art
  • Description: Notes bibliographiques. Index
    1. Introduction: Passionate encounters with animals in everyday life beyond the mainstream Part One. Theaters of the dead : humans and nonhuman animals. 2. Postmortem exhibitions : taxidermied animals and plastinated corpses in the theaters of the dead ; 3. Inside "animal" and outside "culture" : the limits to "sameness" and rhetorics of salvation in von Hagens's Animal Inside Out Body Worlds exhibition Part Two. Mourning and the unmourned. 4. On the margins of death : pet cemeteries and mourning practices ; 5. Grievable lives and new kinships : pet cemeteries and the changing geographies of death ; 6. Animal deaths and the written record of history : the inflammatory politics of pet obituaries in newspapers ; 7. Requiem for roadkill : death, denial, and mourning on America's roads Part Three. Animating life : cognition, expressivity, and the art market. 8. "Art" by animals. Part 1, The transnational market for art by (nonprimate) animals ; 9. "Art" by animals. Part 2, When the artist is an ape popular and scientific discourse and paintings by primates 10. Conclusion: "Every bird a 'Blueboy' " and why it matters for "animal studies" Notes Index
  • Publisher: Chicago London : The University of Chicago Press, cop. 2016
  • Creation Date: cop. 2016
  • Format: 1 vol. (X-333 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
  • Language: English
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