Art, Animals, and Experience

Download or read book Art, Animals, and Experience written by Elizabeth Sutton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabeth Sutton, using a phenomenological approach, investigates how animals in art invite viewers to contemplate human relationships to the natural world. Using Rembrandt van Rijn’s etching of The Presentation in the Temple (c. 1640), Joseph Beuys’s social sculpture I Like America and America Likes Me (1974), archaic rock paintings at Horseshoe Canyon, Canyonlands National Park, and examples from contemporary art, this book demonstrates how artists across time and cultures employed animals to draw attention to the sensory experience of the composition and reflect upon the shared sensory awareness of the world.