Humans and other animals = Mensen en andere dieren / editors/redacteuren: Eric Jorink, Joanna Woodall, Edward H. Wouk.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jorink, Eric, editor.

Woodall, Joanna, editor.

Wouk, Edward H., editor.

Series:

Nederlands kunsthistorisch jaarboek ; d. 71.

Netherlands yearbook for history of art, 0169-6726 ; volume 71 = Nederlands kunsthistorisch Jaarboek ; deel 71

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human-animal relationships in art.

Animals in art.

Art--Netherlands--History.

Art.

History.

Netherlands.

Physical Description:

311 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.

Other Title:

Mensen en andere dieren

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Summary:

The title of this volume of the NKJ takes cognisance of the cross-disciplinary field of animal studies, which challenges taxonomies that set human beings apart from, and often above or at the centre of, all other living creatures and the broader environment. Some articles focus on human-animal relations in oil paintings by canonical artists such as Rubens and Cornelisz. van Haarlem. Others are concerned with the painter as hunter, the politics of dog ownership in seventeenth century Leiden and how the 'creatureliness' common to humans and other animals informs a depiction of two slaughtered and eviscerated politicians. There are contributions that consider the visual construction of human knowledge of the civet cat and the polar bear across a range of media in the early modern period, and a study of colour lithographs within the Dutch naturalist and early environmental movements in around 1900. The final contribution considers the use of animal materials in the works of a seventeenth-century and a contemporary artist.

Contents:

Humans and other animals in the low countries : an introduction / Eric Jorink, Joanna Woodall and Edward H. Wouk

Taming the untamable : early modern civet cats and the nature-culture dichotomy / Sarah-Maria Schober

Creating and unmaking the political body : the brothers De Witt at the limits of the human / Thomas Balfe

'Verscheurende Beyren' : fighting polar bears in early modern Netherlandish art / Robert Bauernfeind

Relative values : locating the animal in three paintings by Cornelis van Haarlem / Albert Godetzky

Hunting grounds for painters : the killing of animals and the artistic domination of nature / Maurice Saß

A dog and his man : scandal in seventeenth-century Leiden / Cynthia von Bogendorf Rupprath

'Man carries all animals within himself' : Rubens, the satyr, and the song of nature / Aneta Georgievska-Shine

An insect's-eye view : Theo van Hoytema and the art of pollination / Joan E. Greer

Painted by nature, painted by artists : butterfly materials in the work of Otto Marseus van Schrieck and Maximilian Prüfer.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9789004504752

9004504753

OCLC:

1293044812

Publisher Number:

9789004504752