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The human animal in Western art and science / Martin Kemp.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kemp, Martin
- Series:
- Louise Smith Bross lecture series
- The Louise Smith Bross lecture series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Animals in art.
- Animals--Symbolic aspects.
- Animals.
- Symbolism in art--Europe.
- Symbolism in art.
- Animals and civilization--Europe.
- Animals and civilization.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Human body--Symbolic aspects.
- Human body.
- Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 307 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Introduction: facing up to ourselves
- Humors, temperaments, and signs
- Fixing the signs
- Feelings and faces
- Souls and machines
- From meaning to mechanism
- Fable and fact: La Fontaine and Buffon
- Going ape
- Beastly boys and admirable animals
- Our animal cousins
- Art and atavism
- A literary-cinematic postscript.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-297) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226430331
- 0226430332
- OCLC:
- 82673642
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- Publisher description
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