Displaying death and animating life : human-animal relations in art, science, and everyday life / Jane C. Desmond.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Desmond, Jane, author.

Series:

Animal lives (University of Chicago. Press)

Animal lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships.

Human-animal relationships in mass media.

Human-animal relationships in art.

Physical Description:

x, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Summary:

The number of ways in which humans interact with animals is almost incalculable. From beloved household pets to the steak on our dinner tables, the fur hi our closets to the Babar books on our shelves, taxidermy exhibits to local zoos, humans have complex, deep, and dependent relationships with the animals in our ecosystems. In Displaying Death and Animating Life, Jane C. Desmond puts those human-animal relationships under a multi-disciplinary lens, focusing on the less obvious realms, like exhibitions, mourning, and the intersection of the scientific and artistic worlds, revealing the individualities and subjectivities of the real animals in our everyday lives. Book jacket.

Contents:

1. Introduction: Passionate encounters with animals in everyday life

beyond the mainstream

Part One. Theaters of the dead : humans and nonhuman animals. 2. Postmortem exhibitions : taxidermied animals and plastinated corpses in the theaters of the dead ; 3. Inside "animal" and outside "culture" : the limits to "sameness" and rhetorics of salvation in von Hagens's Animal Inside Out Body Worlds exhibition

Part Two. Mourning and the unmourned. 4. On the margins of death : pet cemeteries and mourning practices ; 5. Grievable lives and new kinships : pet cemeteries and the changing geographies of death ; 6. Animal deaths and the written record of history : the inflammatory politics of pet obituaries in newspapers ; 7. Requiem for roadkill : death, denial, and mourning on America's roads

Part Three. Animating life : cognition, expressivity, and the art market. 8. "Art" by animals. Part 1, The transnational market for art by (nonprimate) animals ; 9. "Art" by animals. Part 2, When the artist is an ape

popular and scientific discourse and paintings by primates

10. Conclusion: "Every bird a 'Blueboy' " and why it matters for "animal studies"

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Inculdes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780226144061

9780226144054

0226144054

0226144062

OCLC:

930508848

Publisher Number:

99969045172