The Concept of the Animal and Modern Theories of Art / Roni Grén.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grén, Roni, author.

Series:

Routledge advances in art and visual studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals in art.

Physical Description:

x, 164 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

Summary:

"This book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory, using classic texts of modern aesthetics and texts written by modern artists to explore the influence of the human-animal relationship on nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists and art theorists. The book is unique due to its focus on the concept of the animal, rather than on images of animals, and it aims towards a theoretical account of the connections between the notions of art and animality in the modern age. Roni Gren's book spans various disciplines, such as art theory, art history, animal studies, modernism, postmodernism, posthumanism, philosophy, and aesthetics."--Back cover.

Contents:

1 The Exceptionality of the Human Spirit 6

The Human Exception 6

Natural Aesthetics 11

Origin and Language 15

Nature Created in Man's Image 18

To Have and Have Not 22

2 The Animal and the Image 35

Introduction: Discourse and Imagicity 35

Condillac and Animal Imagination 39

Rousseau and the Noble Visual 40

Diderot's Suspicion 45

A Concluding Note 48

3 Art and Evolution 57

Introduction: Darwin's Century 57

The Subjective and the Objective 60

The Crisis of Symbolism and the Violent Other 65

Evolution of the Species and the Creative Sentiment 72

Nietzsche 78

4 The Poetic Lie 91

The Primitive Origin of Art 92

Gaze and the Invisible 98

The World of Abstraction and the Revolution of the Beasts 105

Dream, Debauchery, Myth 110

5 Conclusion: The Modern Other 126

Animalization of Art 126

The Formalist World of Creation 129

The Surrealist Solutions 131

The Animal Itself 134.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 146-157) and index.

ISBN:

9781138054264

1138054267

OCLC:

975370398