Exhibiting Animals in Europe and America (Routledge Research in Art History) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 103259389X ISBN 13: 9781032593890

Publisher: Routledge, 2024

Synopsis

This edited volume, written by historians of art and visual culture who are working in the field of animal studies, seeks to understand how our ways of positioning (and ex-positioning) animals have separated us from the other-than-human animals that are an integral part of our interconnected world.

Bringing together the visual and material culture of display with recent theoretical study on human–animal relations, the book draws attention to ways in which we might rethink this history and map pathways for the future. Defining the idea of exhibition and display broadly, chapters consider a diverse range of media, including paintings, anatomical sculpture, books, prints, and clothing; exhibition venues that take place in both the public and private realms; and key ideas such as looking at/looking back, seeing/being seen, and interspecies recognition. The authors cover topics that span the sixteenth through the early twentieth centuries and focus geographically on Europe and America, with significant content related to Canada, Indigenous America, and Latin America.

The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, museum studies, animal studies, and environmental humanities.

About this title

About the Author

M. Elizabeth Boone is professor in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Alberta.

Lianne McTavish is professor in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Alberta.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 103259389X
• ISBN 13: 9781032593890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Boone M. Elizabeth, McTavish Lianne