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Postmodern Animal

Book information

Publisher
Reaktion Books
Year
2000
ISBN
1861890605, 9781861890603
Open Library ID
OL8631298M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
17 MB (17969247 bytes)
Series
Reaktion Books - Essays in Art and Culture
Pages
224\210
Topic
Biology Zoology
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-04-18 11:31:18

Description

In The Postmodern Animal , Steve Baker explores how animal imagery has been used in modern and contemporary art and performance, and in postmodern philosophy and literature, to suggest and shape ideas about identity and creativity. Baker cogently analyses the work of such European and American artists as Olly and Suzi, Mark Dion, Paula Rego and Sue Coe, at the same time looking critically at the constructions, performances and installations of Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Beuys and other significant late twentieth-century artists. Baker's book draws parallels between the animal's place in postmodern art and poststructuralist theory, drawing on works as diverse as Jacques Derrida's recent analysis of the role of animals in philosophical thought and Julian Barnes's best-selling Flaubert's Parrot .

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