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<p><em>Animals and Artists</em> discusses a selection of modern and contemporary artworks that challenge traditional representations of nonhuman animals, and that expose human viewers to animal otherness.</p><p>It 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, <em>Animals and Artists</em> argues that just because humans frame ‘the animal’ as a negative term, their binary opposite and everything that they are not, does not mean that animals have no meaning in themselves. Rather, animals in their very unknowability, mark the limits of human thinking.</p><p>By combining art analysis with poststructuralist, post humanist and animal studies theories as well as scientific research, Elizabeth decentres the human and establishes a new position where differences are embraced. In our current moment of ecological crisis, <em>Animals and Artists</em> brings readers into solidarity with other anim

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Author

Atkinson, Elizabeth Eleanor Jacqueline

Publisher

Intellect Books

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781789386370

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, History, History & Criticism