Art, Design, and Animal Studies

1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-032-99438-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm

Reihe: Routledge Research in Art History

This volume is a comprehensive exploration of how animals have been depicted across different art forms throughout history.

Humans have portrayed animals in art since there have been tools to do so. Through more than twenty exemplary essays, this volume examines both the history of how humans have portrayed animals in art, as well as the robust discourse that has developed on human-animal relations—discourse that includes complex questions engaging Indigenous tradition, eco-feminism, evolutionary biology, animal behavior, animal rights, and technology and bio-engineering. The book is divided into thematically organized sections and includes chapters that range chronologically from early modernity to contemporary artistic and architectural practice, covering spaces such as galleries, museums, and public buildings. The first section is a broad overview of animals in art history; the second section looks forward and considers animals in contemporary art practices from both the perspective of artists and those interpreting and displaying the art. The third and fourth sections explore current efforts by designers, artists, and architects to engage in creative acts with, alongside, and for non-human animals, in practice and pedagogy.

This is an essential, overdue, international, and diverse collection suitable for researchers and students interested in animals throughout art and design.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sutton, Elizabeth

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Kaleidoscoping the Open  Section I: Representations  Introduction to Section I: Representations 1. Look into my Eyes: Pictorial Boundaries and the Dog’s Gaze 2. The Cat in Manet’s Olympia: Animality, Sensuality, and Femininity in Modernity 3. The Sacred Cow 4. At the Threshold of the Visible: Animal Gaze as Artistic Ideal and Its Historical Foundations 5. Wherefore Art Thou Mule?  Section II: Engagements  Introduction to Section II: Engagements 6. Framing the Animal Other: Deconstructing the “Animal” in the work of Gustafsson&Haapoja 7. Looking at and for Tidnish Mountain 8. Necrophagous Archives: Looking at the Vultures in Ravi Agarwal’s Mixed Media Installations 9. Conservation as Curation: Maintaining the Beautiful 10. How Far So Near: Exploring Collaboration Across Distance, Species, and Time 11. Aesthetic Encounters Beyond the Human: Artistic Cohabitation and Collaboration as Utopian Multispecies Practice 12. Groundwork: Soil Ecologies and the Future of Animal Studies  Section III: Hybridities  Introduction to Section III: Hybridities 13. An Interview with Amy Haigh 14. Birds, Bats, and Bacardi: Toward a Non-Anthropocentric Conception of Land(scape) 15. Nesting: What Does It Mean to Build Like a Bird? 16. Co-Design Across Species: Architectural Authorship and Animal Agency 17. Synanthropic Practice 18. Echolocation and Exile: A Big Brown Bat's Perspective on Fritz Haeg's Animal Estates 19. Theriomorphing: Design and Life-Worlds  Section IV: Diverse Pedagogies  Introduction to Section IV: Diverse Pedagogies 20. Bestial Urbanism: Teaching the More-than-Human City 21. In Consideration of Neighbors 22. Messy Pedagogy: Taking Animals Seriously in an Art History Course 23. Pedagogical Lessons in Art and Animal Study

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Sutton is Professor of Art History and Head of the Department of Art at the University of Northern Iowa, USA. She specializes in globalization and power in art as well as active pedagogical research.

With Ned Dodington who is founder and chief editor of The Expanded Environment and an accomplished architect, designer, design thinker, and advocate for non-human animal agency in the built environment.