Editorial: Bloomsbury
Colección: Material Culture of Art and Design
Número de páginas: 256 págs. 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 20-04-2023
EAN: 9781350203624
ISBN: 978-1-350-20362-4
Precio (sin IVA): 33,42 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 34,76 €
How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question, which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers in Western Europe, also emerged as a key theme in depictions of animals in eighteenth-century art. This book examines the ways in which painters, sculptors, porcelain modelers, and other decorative designers portrayed animals as sensing subjects who physically confirmed the value of material experience. The independent agency of animals with their own right to free existence, a topic of growing urgency in our own era, emerges in striking and often surprising ways within this early nexus of artistic experimentation.