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Our dogs, our selves : dogs in medieval and early modern art, literature, and society
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ISBN: 9789004269163 9789004328617 9004269169 9004328610 Year: 2016 Volume: 6 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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The ubiquity of references to dogs in medieval and early modern texts and images must at some level reflect their actual presence in those worlds, yet scholarly consideration of this material is rare and scattered across diverse sources. This volume addresses that gap, bringing together fifteen essays that examine the appearance, meaning, and significance of dogs in painting, sculpture, manuscripts, literature, and legal records of the period, reaching beyond Europe to include cultural material from medieval Japan and Islam. While primarily art historical in focus, the authors approach the subject from a range of disciplines and with varying methodology that ultimately reveals as much about dogs as about the societies in which they lived. Contributors are Kathleen Ashley, Jane Carroll, Emily Cockayne, John Block Friedman, Karen M. Gerhart, Laura D. Gelfand, Craig A. Gibson, Walter S. Gibson, Nathan Hofer, Jane C. Long, Judith W. Mann, Sophie Oosterwijk, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Donna L. Sadler, Alexa Sand, and Janet Snyder.


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Van dieren en mensen : getuigenissen uit prehistorie en oudheid
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ISBN: 9050660347 Year: 1988 Publisher: Brussel Gemeentekrediet van België


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Speculative Taxidermy
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ISBN: 9780231543217 0231543212 9780231180702 0231180705 9780231180719 0231180713 Year: 2018 Publisher: New York, NY

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Taxidermy, once the province of natural history and dedicated to the pursuit of lifelike realism, has recently resurfaced in the world of contemporary art, culture, and interior design. In Speculative Taxidermy, Giovanni Aloi offers a comprehensive mapping of the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of taxidermy in contemporary art. Drawing on the speculative turn in philosophy and recovering past alternative histories of art and materiality from a biopolitical perspective, Aloi theorizes speculative taxidermy: a powerful interface that unlocks new ethical and political opportunities in human-animal relationships and speaks to how animal representation conveys the urgency of addressing climate change, capitalist exploitation, and mass extinction. A resolutely nonanthropocentric take on the materiality of one of the most controversial mediums in art, this approach relentlessly questions past and present ideas of human separation from the animal kingdom. It situates taxidermy as a powerful interface between humans and animals, rooted in a shared ontological and physical vulnerability. Carefully considering a select number of key examples including the work of Nandipha Mntambo, Maria Papadimitriou, Mark Dion, Berlinde De Bruyckere, Roni Horn, Oleg Kulik, Steve Bishop, Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson, and Cole Swanson, Speculative Taxidermy contextualizes the resilient presence of animal skin in the gallery space as a productive opportunity to rethink ethical and political stances in human-animal relationships.


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Animals as disguised symbols in Renaissance art.
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ISBN: 9789004171015 9004171010 9786612400148 1282400142 9047424328 9789047424321 9781282400146 6612400145 Year: 2008 Volume: 2 169 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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The relationship between medieval animal symbolism and the iconography of animals in the Renaissance has scarcely been studied. Filling a gap in this significant field of Renaissance culture, in general, and its art, in particular, this book demonstrates the continuity and tenacity of medieval animal interpretations and symbolism, disguised under the veil of genre, religious or mythological narrative and scientific naturalism. An extensive introduction, dealing with relevant medieval and early Renaissance sources, is followed by a series of case studies that illustrate ways in which Renaissance artists revived conventional animal imagery in unprecedented contexts, investing them with new meanings, on a social, political, ethical, religious or psychological level, often by applying exegetical methodology in creating multiple semantic and iconographic levels. Brill's Studies on Art, Art History, and Intellectual History , volume 2

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Iconography --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- dieren --- iconografie --- renaissance --- 15de eeuw --- 16de eeuw --- 76.042 --- 76.045 --- 7.04 "13/15" --- 7.042 --- 7.045 --- Iconografie: dieren; fabeldieren in de prentkunst --- Symbolische voorstellingen: allegorieën; dodendansen in de prentkunst --- Iconografie. Iconologie. Onderwerpen van kunstzinnige uitbeelding--?"13/15" --- Iconografie: fauna, dierenrijk, fabeldieren --- Iconografie: allegorieen; symbolen; dodendansen; emblemata --- Animals in art. --- Animals --- Art, Renaissance --- Symbolic aspects --- Themes, motives. --- Animals -- Symbolic aspects -- Europe. --- Art, Renaissance -- Themes, motives. --- Art. --- Animals in art --- Visual Arts - General --- Visual Arts --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Themes, motives --- 7.045 Iconografie: allegorieen; symbolen; dodendansen; emblemata --- 7.042 Iconografie: fauna, dierenrijk, fabeldieren --- 76.045 Symbolische voorstellingen: allegorieën; dodendansen in de prentkunst --- 76.042 Iconografie: dieren; fabeldieren in de prentkunst --- Renaissance art --- Animal kingdom --- Beasts --- Fauna --- Native animals --- Native fauna --- Wild animals --- Wildlife --- Organisms --- Human-animal relationships --- Zoology --- Animal painting and illustration --- Pets in art --- Wild animals in art --- Zoo animals in art --- renaissance (historisch tijdvak, doorheen de 16e eeuw) --- dieren. --- iconografie. --- 15de eeuw. --- 16de eeuw. --- Symbolisme des animaux --- Arts de la Renaissance --- Dans l'art --- Europe --- Thèmes, motifs

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