Full Description
Innovative study of animal art histories in modern art.
Animal Modernities challenges the traditional human-centered focus of art history and explores how modern art, visual culture, and modernity itself emerge from relationships between humans and animals. The essays in this volume reveal histories of exploitation and domination, as well as confusion and ambivalence, and occasional moments when affinities between humans and animals have been embraced, and animal agency asserted and acknowledged. The authors collectively point to the importance of thinking about animal-human relations for addressing today's ecological challenges.
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Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Daniel Harkett and Katie Hornstein
Rethinking the Animal in Art History: Charles Darwin, Karl Woermann, and the Bowerbird
Nina Amstutz
Photography Needs Animals: Materials, Processes, and the Colonial Supply Chains of Gelatine Dry Plates
Rosalind Hayes
Shooting Elephants and the Performance of Imperial Power
Niharika Dinkar
A Tale of Two Serpents
Laur a Nüffer
Mourning across Species: Ivory Miniatures and Elephant Death
Katherine Fein
War Horses, Commemoration, and Mutilation:
Copenhagen (1808-1836) and Marengo (ca. 1793-1831) Katie Hornstein
To Fool a Fish: Exploring Interspecies Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Fly-Fishing
Emily Gephart
Feline Creativity on the Eve of Modernity
Amy Freund and Michael Yonan
The Bird that Cuts the Airy Way: William Blake's Avian Modernity
Alysia Garrison
Bovine Ubiquity
Maura Coughlin
Against the Visual: Seals, Indigenous-Settler Relations, and the Material Culture of Sealing since 1697
Catherine Girard
Mr. Crowley's Signature: Race, Resistance, and the Queerness of American Animal Portraiture
Annie Ronan
Memory and Materiality: Commemorating Canine Companions in Eighteenth-Century Britain
Sean Weiss
Herd Mentality: Animal Relationality and QueerKinships in the Life and Work of Anton Braith
Stephanie Triplett
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
