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Crawly creatures : little animals in art and science
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ISBN: 9789462087569 9462087563 Year: 2022 Publisher: Amsterdam Rijksmuseum

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"Small teeming animals such as insects, spiders, lizards and toads; these crawly creatures have historically endured a bad reputation. In the Middle Ages they were mainly associated with death and the devil. But in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries their beauty began to be appreciated. Crawly creatures were now the centre of attention: they appeared in works of art, served as the subject of scholarly treatises and became popular collectors' items. Artists such as Albrecht Dürer, Wenzel Jamnitzer, Jan van Kessel I and Maria Sibylla Merian observed these critters in painstaking detail and succeeded in depicting them beautifully. Scientists like Robert Hooke and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek were equally mesmerized. The little animals were collected, studied, placed under the microscope and rendered in illustrations. To this day, these creatures feature in the work of visual artists, who present alternative ways of interacting with insects and the natural world. This richly illustrated publication explores the fascinating relationship between art and science and the way the perceptions of insects and other crawly creatures have evolved over the centuries: from abhorrance to amazement"--Publisher's website.


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Gorgeous beasts
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ISBN: 0271059192 0271061413 027105820X 0271061405 9780271061405 9780271059198 9780271058207 0271054026 9780271054025 9780271054018 0271054018 Year: 2012 Publisher: University Park, Pa. Pennsylvania State University Press

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"A collection of essays examining the place of animals in history and culture and their influence on life and art, from the Renaissance to the present"--Provided by publisher.


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Candida Höfer : Zoologische Gärten : Photographien
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ISBN: 3888146852 9783888146855 Year: 1993 Publisher: München Schirmer/Mosel

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UDSJUEN : Koenraad Tinel : sculpturen, tekeningen : tentoonstelling, België, Gent, uitgave naar aanleiding van de tentoonstelling te Gent op verschillende locaties, van 30 mei tot en met 28 juli 2019
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ISBN: 9789401461634 9401461635 Year: 2019 Publisher: Tielt Lannoo

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Met een overweldigende kracht bouwt Koenraad Tinel (°1934, Gent) al meer dan een halve eeuw gestaag verder aan zijn zelf geschapen universum. Zijn werk onderzoekt de onvatbare relatie tussen aarde en mythe, tussen denken en seksuele energie. In een vormen taal die moeilijk in een categorie is te stoppen. Opgetrokken uit robuuste materialen verbergen zijn beelden een ragfijne dans van motieven, waaruit een picturaal raffinement spreekt.Het werk van Koenraad Tinel toont in de ruwste vormen de tijdloze schoonheid van een extreem vitale energie, van een met de dood flirtende begeerte, die nietsontziende kracht die mens en dier met elkaar verbindt.Centraal in udsjuen staat het gelijknamige oerverhaal van de Siberische Jakoeten met een nooit eerder gepubliceerde tekeningensuite van Koenraad Tinel. De publicatie biedt een overzicht van Tinels oeuvre uit de periode 2015-'19, aangevuld met sleutelwerken van de voorbije 25 jaar. David Van Reybrouck leidt Udsjuen in.


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Displaying Death and Animating Life : Human-Animal Relations in Art, Science, and Everyday Life
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ISBN: 022637551X 9780226375519 9780226144054 0226144054 9780226144061 0226144062 Year: 2016 Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press,

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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 in 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 multidisciplinary lens, focusing on the less obvious, and revealing the individualities and subjectivities of the real animals in our everyday lives. Desmond, a pioneer in the field of animal studies, builds the book on a number of case studies. She conducts research on-site at major museums, taxidermy conventions, pet cemeteries, and even at a professional conference for writers of obituaries. She goes behind the scenes at zoos, wildlife clinics, and meetings of pet cemetery professionals. We journey with her as she meets Kanzi, the bonobo artist, and a host of other animal-artists-all of whom are preparing their artwork for auction. Throughout, Desmond moves from a consideration of the visual display of unindividuated animals, to mourning for known animals, and finally to the marketing of artwork by individual animals. The first book in the new Animal Lives series, Displaying Death and Animating Life is a landmark study, bridging disciplines and reaching across divisions from the humanities and social sciences to chart new territories of investigation.

Dürer's animals
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ISBN: 0874744083 Year: 1991 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Smithsonian Institution


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The Enlightenment's animals : changing conceptions of animals in the long eighteenth century
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ISBN: 9789462987623 9789048539321 9462987629 9048539323 Year: 2019 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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In The Enlightenment's Animals Nathaniel Wolloch takes a broad view of changing conceptions of animals in European culture during the long eighteenth century. Combining discussions of intellectual history, the history of science, the history of historiography, the history of economic thought, and, not least, art history, this book describes how animals were discussed and conceived in different intellectual and artistic contexts underwent a dramatic shift during this period. While in the seventeenth century and the first half of the eighteenth century the main focus was on the sensory and cognitive characteristics of animals, during the late Enlightenment a new outlook emerged, emphasizing their conception as economic resources. Focusing particularly on seventeenth-century Dutch culture, and on the Scottish Enlightenment, Wolloch discusses developments in other countries as well, presenting a new look at a topic of increasing importance in modern scholarship.


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Patricia Piccinini : we are family
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ISBN: 1920784039 9781920784034 Year: 2003 Publisher: Strawberry Hills, N.S.W. Australia Council


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The paper zoo : 500 years of animals in art
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ISBN: 9780712357432 0712357432 Year: 2016 Publisher: London The British Library

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"The Paper Zoo traces the varied and vital role of natural history illustration in science and art since the fifteenth century. Sumptuous images from giants of the genre - such as the birds of John J. Audubon, or the insects of Maria Sybilla Merian - accompany less familiar but equally intriguing illustrations from manuscripts, journals, and rare printed books. Together, these works represent a collection of nature's wonders. Birds, butterflies, insects, mammals, reptiles, and fish were immortalised in print; pests and curiosities were wondered at; microorganisms made monsters. Travellers brought home, on paper, exotic creatures. Scholars and hobbyists insisted upon the beauty and significance of native creatures, both wild and domesticated - even cows and clothes moths. Charlotte Sleigh shows how the styles and purposes of natural history illustration evolved, from animal alphabets to the extraordinary productions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century naturalists and explorers recording and classifying the living world. She pays tribute to the achievements of little-known, unsung painters and colourists, alongside famous artists, in this mighty endeavour of collecting, defining and exhibiting animal life on the page. Here, too, were ironies and contradictions: many naturalists were also hunters, and the dodo and the great auk survive only in paper zoos."--Publisher's description.

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