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Author Johnson, Linda, Ph.D., author

Title Art, ethics and the human-animal relationship / Linda Johnson
Published Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (some color)
Series Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series
Palgrave Macmillan animal ethics series.
Contents 1. Chapter 1: Introduction -- 2. Chapter 2: A New Breed: The Cat as Scapegoat in Edenic and Utopian Imagery -- 3. Chapter 3: Virtue and Vice in High Couture -- 4. Chapter 4: Transformational Approaches: Equine Speciesism -- 5. Chapter 5: Looking Askance: The Changing Shape Of "Meat" In Dutch Still Life Painting -- 6. Chapter 6: Historical Processes: Embodied /Embedded -- 7. Chapter 7: Absent Referents: Bristly Brushes -- 8. Chapter 8: Conclusion: Darkness into Light --
Summary This book examines the works of major artists between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as important barometers of individual and collective values toward non-human life. Once viewed as merely representational, these works can also be read as tangential or morally instrumental by way of formal analysis and critical theories. Chapter Two demonstrates the discrimination toward large and small felines in Genesis and The Book of Revelation. Chapter Three explores the cruel capture of free roaming animals and how artists depicted their furs, feathers and shells in costume as symbols of virtue and vice. Chapter Four identifies speciest beliefs between donkeys and horses. Chapter Five explores the altered Dutch kitchen spaces and disguised food animals in various culinary constructs in still life painting. Chapter Six explores the animal substances embedded in pigments. Chapter Seven examines animals in absentia-in the crafting of brushes. The book concludes with the fish paintings of William Merritt Chase whose glazing techniques demonstrate an artistic approach that honors fishes as sentient beings
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Animals in art.
Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- 17th century
Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- 18th century
Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects -- History -- 19th century
Art, Modern -- Themes, motives
Human-animal relationships -- History -- 17th century
Human-animal relationships -- History -- 18th century
Human-animal relationships -- History -- 19th century
Animal welfare -- Moral and ethical aspects
Animals in art
Art, Modern -- Themes, motives
Human-animal relationships
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783030788339
3030788334