Giovanni Aloi

Art and Animals (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Art is continually haunted by the animal', wrote Deleuze and Guattari. Over the past two decades, animals have quite literally invaded the gallery space, from Joseph Beuys' co-habiting with a coyote, Janis Kounelli's instillation of live horses, Damien Hirst's shark in formaldehyde to Mark Dion's natural history displays and Marco Evaristti's 'goldfish in a blender'. In this latest addition to the highly acclaimed 'Art and...' series, Giovanni Aloi surveys the insistent presence of animals in the world of contemporary art, exploring the leading concepts which inform this emerging practice. From exhibitions featuring live animals, to taxidermy, and interspecies communication, Giovanni Aloi explores how animals feature in modern art with a range of thought-provoking and innovative visual representations. Art and Animals challenges ideas of identity, 'otherness' and civilisation by explaining the role animals have occupied in our cultural development and illustrating their presence in the visual arts today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857732750
• Artikelnr.: 41848872

Autorenporträt

Giovanni Aloi is an art historian and curator, specializing in the history and theory of photography, representation of nature, and everyday objects in art. He currently lectures on modern and contemporary art at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA and Sotheby's Institute of Art in New York, USA and London, UK. Since 2006, Aloi has been the Editor in Chief of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture.