The Human Animal in Western Art and Science
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From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf,
children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of
animals who act like people. But the comparisons run both ways, as
metaphors, stories, and images - as well as scientific theories -
throughout history remind us that humans often act like animals,
and that the line separating them is not as clear as we'd like to
pretend. Here, Martin Kemp explores a stunning range of images and
ideas to demonstrate just how deeply these underappreciated links
between humans and other fauna are embedded in our culture.Tracing
those interconnections among art, science, and literature, Kemp
leads us on a dazzling tour of Western thought, from Aristotelian
physiognomy and its influence on phrenology to the Great Chain of
Being and Darwinian evolution. We learn about the racist
anthropology underlying a familiar Degas sculpture, see paintings
of a remarkably simian Judas, and watch Mowgli, the man-child from
Kipling's ",The Jungle Book",, exhibit the behaviors of the beasts
who raised him. Like a kaleidoscope, Kemp uses these stories to
refract, reconfigure, and echo the essential truth that the way we
think about animals inevitably inflects how we think about people,
and vice versa.Loaded with vivid illustrations and drawing on
sources from Hesiod to La Fontaine, Leonardo to P. T. Barnum, ",The
Human Animal in Western Art and Science", is a fascinating,
eye-opening reminder of our deep affinities with our fellow members
of the animal kingdom.
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Martin Kemp ,
The University of Chicago Press
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Martin Kemp,
The University of Chicago Press
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Slovart
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