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Book The Art of the Animal

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  • Author : Kathryn Eddy
  • Publisher : Lantern Books
  • Release : 2015-06-30
  • ISBN : 1590564928
  • Pages : 343 pages

Download or read book The Art of the Animal written by Kathryn Eddy and published by Lantern Books. This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring work by the editors, Nava Atlas, Sunaura Taylor, Yvette Watt, Angela Singer, Hester Jones, Suzy Gonzalez, Renee Lauzon, Olaitan Callender- Scott, Patricia Denys, Maria Lux, and Lynn Mowson, The Art of the Animal explores contemporary women artists’ engagement with how women and animals are depicted and treated. The book was inspired by The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams, who has written an afterword. The foreword is by Keri Cronin, Associate Professor in the Visual Arts Department at Brock University, Canada. Carolyn Merino Mullin, director of the Museum of Animals and Society in Los Angeles, for which the book serves as a catalogue for an exhibition of the artists’ work in Fall 2015, has also contributed an essay.

Book The Art of Animal Character Design

Download or read book The Art of Animal Character Design written by David Colman and published by . This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Artist Animal

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  • Author : Steve Baker
  • Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
  • Release : 2013-02-27
  • ISBN : 1452934843
  • Pages : 326 pages

Download or read book Artist Animal written by Steve Baker and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animals have always been compelling subjects for artists, but the rise of animal advocacy and posthumanist thought has prompted a reconsideration of the relationship between artist and animal. In this book, Steve Baker examines the work of contemporary artists who directly confront questions of animal life, treating animals not for their aesthetic qualities or as symbols of the human condition but rather as beings who actively share the world with humanity. The concerns of the artists presented in this book—Sue Coe, Eduardo Kac, Lucy Kimbell, Catherine Chalmers, Olly and Suzi, Angela Singer, Catherine Bell, and others—range widely, from the ecological to the philosophical and from those engaging with the modification of animal bodies to those seeking to further the cause of animal rights. Drawing on extensive interviews he conducted with the artists under consideration, Baker explores the vital contribution that contemporary art can make to a broader conception of animal life, emphasizing the importance of creativity and trust in both the making and understanding of these artworks. Throughout, Baker is attentive to issues of practice, form, and medium. He asks, for example, whether the animal itself could be said to be the medium in which these artists are working, and he highlights the tensions between creative practice and certain kinds of ethical demands or expectations. Featuring full-color, vivid examples of their work, Artist Animal situates contemporary artists within the wider project of thinking beyond the human, asserting art’s power to open up new ways of thinking about animals.

Book The Art of Animal Drawing

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  • Author : Ken Hultgren
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 1993-02-09
  • ISBN : 0486274268
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book The Art of Animal Drawing written by Ken Hultgren and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1993-02-09 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Disney animator offers expert advice on drawing animals both realistically and as caricatures. Use of line, brush technique, establishing mood, conveying action, much more. Construction drawings reveal development process in creating animal figures. Many chapters on drawing individual animal forms — dogs, cats, horses, deer, cows, foxes, kangaroos. 53 halftones, 706 line illustrations.

Book Becoming Animal

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  • Author : Nato Thompson
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2005-06-17
  • ISBN : 0262201615
  • Pages : 144 pages

Download or read book Becoming Animal written by Nato Thompson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary artists investigate the boundaries between animal and human in a world of transgenics and dissolving distinctions; with 65 color images of new works. In an age when scientists say they can no longer specify the exact difference between human and animal, living and dead, many contemporary artists have chosen to use animals in their work—as the ultimate "other," as metaphor, as reflection. The attempt to discover what is animal, not surprisingly, leads to a greater understanding of what it means to be human. In Becoming Animal, 12 internationally known artists investigate the shifting boundaries between animal and human. Their explorations may be a barometer of things to come. The works included in Becoming Animal—which accompanies an exhibit at MASS MoCA—range from the aviary and cabinet of curiosities of Mark Dion to the gun-toting bird collages of Michael Oatman. Nicolas Lampert's machine-animal collages and Jane Alexander's corpse-like humanoids suggest a new landscape of alienation. Rachel Berwick's investigation of the last Galapagos tortoise from the island of Pinto and Brian Conley's humanized mating call of the Tungara frog question the divide between human and animal communication. Patricia Piccinini imagines a bodyguard for a bird on the edge of extinction and Ann-Sofi Siden recreates the bedroom—and paranoia—of psychologist Alice Fabian. Natalie Jeremijenko presents another installment in her ongoing Ooz, reverse-engineering the zoo, and Kathy High's installation of "trans-animals" remembers lab rats who have given their lives for science. Sam Easterson's videos allow us to see from the viewpoint of an aardvark, a tarantula, a tumbleweed; Motohiko Odani's films show a surrealistic genetically modified bestiary. Becoming Animal documents these works with eye-popping full-color images, taking us on a visual journey through an unknown world.

Book Animal Art Book

Download or read book Animal Art Book written by Lee J. Ames and published by . This book was released on 1986-11 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Step-by-step instructions for drawing fifty different animals.

Book The Know How of Cartooning

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  • Author : Ken Hultgren
  • Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
  • Release : 2019-03-20
  • ISBN : 048683025X
  • Pages : 98 pages

Download or read book The Know How of Cartooning written by Ken Hultgren and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2019-03-20 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic guide by a master animator and cartoonist — and long time Disney artist — is now available for the first time since its original publication in 1946. Author Ken Hultgren instructs by example in a guide that's suitable for beginners and advanced students alike. The comprehensive range of instruction covers features and expressions, animals, foreshortening, perspective, lettering, caricature, animation, and various other aspects of cartooning. All subjects include step-by-step guides, several examples, and helpful hints and suggestions. Blank pages allow lots of room for drawing practice. Professional and amateur animators, cartoonists, caricaturists, and artists dealing with characterization will find this timeless manual an excellent and instructive companion.

Book The Cry of Nature

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  • Author : Stephen F. Eisenman
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2013-10-15
  • ISBN : 1780232128
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book The Cry of Nature written by Stephen F. Eisenman and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eighteenth century saw the rise of new and more sympathetic understanding of animals as philosophy, literature, and art argued that animals could feel and therefore possess inalienable rights. This idea gave birth to a diverse movement that affects how we understand our relationship to the natural world. The Cry of Nature details a crucial period in the history of this movement, revealing the significant role art played in the growth of animal rights. Stephen F. Eisenman shows how artists from William Hogarth to Pablo Picasso and Sue Coe have represented the suffering, chastisement, and execution of animals. These artists, he demonstrates, illustrate the lessons of Montaigne, Rousseau, Darwin, Freud, and others—that humans and animals share an evolutionary heritage of sentience, intelligence, and empathy, and thus animals deserve equal access to the domain of moral right. Eisenman also traces the roots of speciesism to the classical world and describes the social role of animals in the demand for emancipation. Instructive, challenging, and always engaging, The Cry of Nature is a book for anyone interested in animal rights, art history, and the history of ideas.

Book The Weatherly Guide to Drawing Animals

Download or read book The Weatherly Guide to Drawing Animals written by and published by Drawing Animals. This book was released on 2003 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Weatherly Guide to Drawing Animals focuses on learning how to draw animals using solid drawing principles."--Publisher.

Book Art for Animals

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  • Author : J. Keri Cronin
  • Publisher : Penn State Press
  • Release : 2018-05-03
  • ISBN : 0271081635
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Art for Animals written by J. Keri Cronin and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Animal rights activists today regularly use visual imagery in their efforts to shape the public’s understanding of what it means to be “kind,” “cruel,” and “inhumane” toward animals. Art for Animals explores the early history of this form of advocacy through the images and the people who harnessed their power. Following in the footsteps of earlier-formed organizations like the RSPCA and ASPCA, animal advocacy groups such as the Victoria Street Society for the Protection of Animals from Vivisection made significant use of visual art in literature and campaign materials. But, enabled by new and improved technologies and techniques, they took the imagery much further than their predecessors did, turning toward vivid, pointed, and at times graphic depictions of human-animal interactions. Keri Cronin explains why the activist community embraced this approach, details how the use of such tools played a critical role in educational and reform movements in the United States, Canada, and England, and traces their impact in public and private spaces. Far from being peripheral illustrations of points articulated in written texts or argued in impassioned speeches, these photographs, prints, paintings, exhibitions, “magic lantern” slides, and films were key components of animal advocacy at the time, both educating the general public and creating a sense of shared identity among the reformers. Uniquely focused on imagery from the early days of the animal rights movement and filled with striking visuals, Art for Animals sheds new light on the history and development of modern animal advocacy.

Book Stripped Bare

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  • Author : David Bainbridge
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2018-10-09
  • ISBN : 069118397X
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Stripped Bare written by David Bainbridge and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated compendium of the art and history of animal anatomy from antiquity to today For more than two thousand years, comparative anatomy—the study of anatomical variation among different animal species—has been used to make arguments in natural philosophy, reinforce religious dogma, and remind us of our own mortality. This stunningly illustrated compendium traces the intertwined intellectual and artistic histories of comparative anatomy from antiquity to today. Stripped Bare brings together some of the most arresting images ever produced, from the earliest studies of animal form to the technicolor art of computer-generated anatomies. David Bainbridge draws on representative illustrations from different eras to discuss the philosophical, scientific, and artistic milieus from which they emerged. He vividly describes the unique aesthetics of each phase of anatomical endeavor, providing new insights into the exquisite anatomical drawings of Leonardo and Albrecht Dürer in the era before printing, Jean Héroard’s cutting and cataloging of the horse during the age of Louis XIII, the exotic pictorial menageries of the Comte de Buffon in the eighteenth century, anatomical illustrations from Charles Darwin’s voyages, the lavish symmetries of Ernst Haeckel’s prints, and much, much more. Featuring a wealth of breathtaking color illustrations throughout, Stripped Bare is a panoramic tour of the intricacies of vertebrate life as well as an expansive history of the peculiar and beautiful ways humans have attempted to study and understand the natural world.

Book Art Nouveau Floral and Animal Designs

Download or read book Art Nouveau Floral and Animal Designs written by M. P. Verneuil and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finely detailed designs, selected from some of Verneuil's best-known collections, feature graceful images of garden flowers, reeds, and blossoming trees, as well as exquisite portrayals of fish, butterflies, birds, and other members of the animal kingdom. An inspiration for graphic artists, illustrators, and craftspeople. 146 full-color illustrations.

Book Animal Essence

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  • Author : Joe Weatherly
  • Publisher : Drawing Animals
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9780971031425
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Animal Essence written by Joe Weatherly and published by Drawing Animals. This book was released on 2007 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Animal Magick

Download or read book Animal Magick written by D. J. Conway and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 1995 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how to access the spiritual powers of familiars--real or imagined animals--for personal enrichment. Whether one collects glass animals, dreams about snakes, or "talks" with an animal already, ANIMAL MAGICK shows how to further develop this connection for startling magickal results.

Book Creative Haven Art Nouveau Animal Designs Coloring Book

Download or read book Creative Haven Art Nouveau Animal Designs Coloring Book written by Marty Noble and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirty-one elegant designs adapted from the works of Verneuil, Mucha, and other Art Nouveau masters. Features patterns inspired by swans, peacocks, and other creatures. Previously published as Art Nouveau Animal Designs Coloring Book.

Book Animal Art

    Book Details:
  • Author : Pam Holden
  • Publisher : Red Rocket Readers
  • Release : 2006-05-12
  • ISBN : 9781877419737
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Animal Art written by Pam Holden and published by Red Rocket Readers. This book was released on 2006-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This artist wanted to paint pictures of some animals. He chose the most unusual animals for his paintings. Monkey wanted to have his picture painted. Did the artist choose him? Reading Level 13/F&P Level F

Book Little Collectors  Nature Art

Download or read book Little Collectors Nature Art written by and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's spring! So it's time to get outside and explore. All around you are extraordinary things in nature, waiting to be discovered... and collected! This box is your one-stop guide to finding, observing, collecting, and exhibiting your discoveries, from flowers and blossoms to pebbles and plants. Discover and create your own collections and be amazed at the wonder of life around you.