The Animal Within

Name: The Animal Within
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SKU: 9783753303239
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In The Animal Within, the author delves into the profound connections between humans and the animal kingdom, exploring how cultural and artistic expressions reveal our deepest instincts and shared ancestry. The book intertwines anthropology, art history, and cultural studies to examine how animals have been represented and symbolised throughout various historical and contemporary contexts. It's a rich tapestry that uncovers human identity by looking through the lens of artistic interpretations and societal interactions with animals.
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You might enjoy this book if you’re fascinated by exploring the deep connections between humans and animals through artistic and cultural perspectives. It offers an intriguing look at how animal imagery shapes our understanding of the world, appealing to anyone interested in art, symbolism, and cultural narratives.

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Visual art and its fascination with animals—in the form of pets, zoo animals, farm animals, stuffed animals, along with projections of wildness—prepare the ground to reflect on the nature of sex, hunger, and affection, as well as on family and gender relations, socialisation and domestication, and, not least, on the enduring impact of colonial history.

Put another way: The Animal Within uses the popular appeal of animals to negotiate structures of violence and domination. Who eats whom? Who skins whom? Who leads whom on a leash? Who gives whom a name?

But also: Why are children's playpens populated by so many cute stuffed animals? What purpose do aquariums, birdcages, and exotic trinkets serve in the bourgeois living room? And what makes animal skins such a popular fetish in expressions of sexuality and fashion?

The exhibition is thus less about animals than about bodies, moving or still, reclining or standing, crouching or crawling. The animal as a motif serves as a starting point for arriving at a materialist understanding of art and life, and not in a figurative sense—it is astonishing how prominently bones, skins, hides, and feathers feature in the visual arts of the last hundred years.

Artists: Lothar Baumgarten, Joseph Beuys, Linda Bilda, Helen Chadwick, Friedl Dicker-Brandeis/Franz Singer, VALIE EXPORT, Öyvind Fahlström, Heinz Frank, Gloria Friedmann, Nancy Graves, Karel Havlicek, Jann Haworth, Candida Höfer, Ull Hohn, Anna Jermolaewa, Isolde Maria Joham, Gülsün Karamustafa, Alfred Klinkan, Dominique Knowles, Tetsumi Kudo, Maria Lassnig, Otto Muehl, Herrmann Nitsch, Oswald Oberhuber, Madame d'Ora (Dora Kallmus), Gina Pane, Pino Pascali, Germaine Richier, Susan Rothenberg, Erica Rutherford, Chéri Samba, Cagnaccio di San Pietro, Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Daniel Spoerri, Ursula et al.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783753303239

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 26 January 2023

Country: Germany

Imprint: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Illustration: 130 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Manuela Ammer
Edited by Ulrike Müller
Text by Kathryn Scanlan
Text by Joni Murphy
Text by Johanna Hedva
Text by Bhanu Kapil
Text by Eva Hayward
Text by Jack Halberstam
Text by Fahim Amir

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 297.0mm

Weight: 1400g

Pages: 350

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Jack Halberstam is Professor of Gender Studies and English at Columbia University. Johanna Hedva is a Korean American writer, artist, and musician, who was raised in Los Angeles. Hedva is the author of four books, most recently the 2024 essay collection How To Tell When We Will Die: On Pain, Disability, and Doom, published by Hillman Grad Books and Zando, which won the Amber Hollibaugh award for LGBTQ Social Justice writing, and was longlisted for a Goodreads Choice Award. They are the author of the novels Your Love Is Not Good, which Kirkus called a "hellraising, resplendent must read," and On Hell, which was named one of Dennis Cooper’s favorites of 2018. They are also the author of Minerva the Miscarriage of the Brain, which collects a decade of work in poetry, plays, performances, and essays. Kathryn Scanlan is an American award-winning author. She is best known for her works The Dominant Animal, Aug 9 – Fog and Kick the Latch.