Animal modernities : images, objects, histories / edited by Daniel Harkett and Katie Hornstein.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harkett, Daniel, editor.

Hornstein, Katie, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Animals in art--History.

Animals in art.

Human-animal relationships in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Leuven University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"Animal Modernities challenges the traditional human-centered focus of art history and explores how modern art, visual culture, and modernity itself emerge from relationships between humans and animals. The essays in this volume reveal histories of exploitation and domination, as well as confusion and ambivalence, and occasional moments when affinities between humans and animals have been embraced, and animal agency asserted and acknowledged. The authors collectively point to the importance of thinking about animal–human relations for addressing today’s ecological challenges."-- From JSTOR.

Contents:

Query successfulCharles Darwin, Karl Woermann, and the bowerbird / Nina Amstutz

Photography needs animals: materials, processes, and the colonial supply chains of gelatine dry plates / Rosalind Hayes

Shooting elephants and the performance of imperial power / Niharika Dinkar

A tale of two serpents / Laura Nüffer

Mourning across species: ivory miniatures and elephant death / Katherine Fein

War horses, commemoration, and mutilation: Copenhagen (1808–1836) and Marengo (ca. 1793–1831) / Katie Hornstein

To fool a fish: exploring interspecies aesthetics in nineteenth-century fly-fishing / Emily Gephart

Feline creativity on the eve of modernity / Amy Freund and Michael Yonan

The bird that cuts the airy way: William Blake’s avian modernity / Alysia Garrison

Bovine ubiquity / Maura Coughlin

Against the visual: seals, indigenous-settler relations, and the material culture of sealing since 1697 / Catherine Girard

Mr. Crowley’s signature: race, resistance, and the queerness of american animal portraiture / Annie Ronan

Memory and materiality: commemorating canine companions in eighteenth-century britain / Sean Weiss

Herd mentality: animal relationality and queer kinships in the life and work of anton braith / Stephanie Triplett .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 21, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Animal modernities.

ISBN:

9789461666345

9461666349

9789461666352

9461666357

OCLC:

1541795626

Publisher Number:

CIPO000242750

CIPO000362210

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license