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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. A discussion of modern and contemporary artworks that challenge traditional representations of nonhuman animals and expose human viewers to animal otherness. This book argues that the individuated and discrete human self in possession of consciousness, rationality, empathy, a voice, and a face, is open to challenge by nonhuman capacities such as distributed cognition, gender ambiguity, metamorphosis, mimicry, and avian speech. In traditional philosophy, animals represent all that is lacking in humankind. However, Animals and Artists argues that just because humans frame "the animal" as a negative term does not mean that animals have no meaning in themselves. Rather animals, in their very unknowability, mark the limits of human thinking. By combining art analysis with poststructuralist, posthumanist, and animal studies theories, Atkinson decenters the human and establishes a new position that embraces difference. Amid our current ecological crisis, Animals and Artists brings readers into solidarity with animal species, among them spiders, silkworms, bees, parrots, and octopuses. The book raises empathy for other life forms, drawing attention to the shared vulnerabilities of human and nonhuman animals, and in so doing underlines the power of art to bring about social change. This book explores a selection of artistic representations of animals. Positioned within contemporary debates around the animal question, it challenges anthropocentric beliefs about the all-knowing, rational and speaking human subject and argues that the irrationality of animal worlds marks the very limits of human thinking. 42 b&w photographs. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9781789386370
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Seller Inventory # 9781789386370
Book Description Condition: New. Seller Inventory # 44603791-n
Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 212 pages. 9.50x6.75x0.50 inches. In Stock. Seller Inventory # __1789386373
Book Description Hardback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Seller Inventory # B9781789386370
Book Description HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. Seller Inventory # CX-9781789386370