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Beauty and the beast : human-animal relations as revealed in real photo postcards, 1905-1935 / Arnold Arluke and Robert Bogdan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Arluke, Arnold.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Photography of animals.
- Photography, Artistic.
- Human-animal relationships--Pictorial works.
- Human-animal relationships.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (296 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From fairy tales to photography, nowhere is the complexity of human-animal relationships more apparent than in the creative arts.Art illuminates the nature and significance of animals in modern, Western thought, capturing the complicated union that has long existed between the animal kingdom and us.
- Contents:
- Animals, humans, and postcards
- Pets
- Mascots
- Workers
- Food and goods
- Patients and needy
- Vermin
- Game
- Trophies, speciments, and furs
- Spectacles
- Sports
- Symbols
- Living with inconsistencies, past and present.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-8156-5091-4
- OCLC:
- 746011917
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