Elizabeth Eleanor Jacqueline Atkinson

Animals and Artists (eBook, ePUB)

An Exploration of Impossible Encounters

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Animals and Artists explores a selection of artistic representations of animals. Positioned within contemporary debates around the animal question, it challenges anthropocentric beliefs about the all-knowing, rational and speaking human subject, and argues that just because humans frame 'the animal' as a negative term does not mean that animals have no meaning in themselves.

Rather animals, in their very unknowability, mark the limits of human thinking.

By combining art analysis with poststructuralist, posthumanist and animal studies theories, Atkinson decenters the human and establishes a new position that embraces difference. Amidst our current ecological crisis, Animals and Artists brings readers into solidarity with other animal species, among them spiders, silkworms, bees, parrots and octopuses. It raises empathy for other life forms, drawing attention to the shared vulnerabilities of human and nonhuman animals, and in so doing underlines the power of art to bring about social change.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Intellect Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781789386394
• Artikelnr.: 64559510

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Atkinson is an independent scholar and writer living in London. She completed her Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded PhD at the Royal College of Art in 2020. She has published articles on the position of art within the human-animal relationship, interrogating anthropocentric principles in the process. This is her first book.