And Everyday Life The first part of the book looks at humans view of the display of human bodies and nonhuman animal bodies This section examines taxidermy This section looks at the exhibits of the anatomist Gunther von Hagens Part two examines the mourning of pets This section also looks at people s interaction with animals who become roadkill Part three examines the human view of art by non human animals who are not primates Chapter 9 examines how humans view art by other primates This part examines both popular discourse and scientific discourse surrounding art by non human animals The conclusion examines a summary of the themes of Desmond s book.
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The number of ways in which humans interact with animals is almost incalculable From beloved household pets to the steak on our dinner tables the fur in our closets to the Babar books on our shelves taxidermy exhibits to local zoos humans have complex deep and dependent relationships with the animals in our ecosystems In Displaying Death and Animating Life Jane C Desmond puts those human animal relationships under a multidisciplinary lens focusing on the less obvious and revealing the individualities and subjectivities of the real animals in our everyday lives Desmond a pioneer in the field of animal studies builds the book on a number of case studies She conducts research on site at major museums taxidermy conventions pet cemeteries and even at a professional conference for writers of obituaries She goes behind the scenes at zoos wildlife clinics and meetings of pet cemetery professionals We journey with her as she meets Kanzi the bonobo artist and a host of other animal artists all of whom are preparing their artwork for auction Throughout Desmond moves from a consideration of the visual display of unindividuated animals to mourning for known animals and finally to the marketing of artwork by individual animals The first book in the new Animal Lives series Displaying Death and Animating Life is a landmark study bridging disciplines and reaching across divisions from the humanities and social sciences to chart new territories of investigation Displaying Death and Animating Life Human Animal Relations in Art Science and Everyday Life Animal Lives Jane C Desmond is a Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Desmond is also a professor of Women and Gender Studies at the University of Illinois Desmond published a philosophical book of anthropological essays entitled Displaying Death and Animating Life Human Animal Relations in Art Science and Everyday Life in 2016 The book includes a section of notes and an index The book contains several black and white illustrations The book contains a lot of discussion of contemporary art history The book has 10 chapters The first chapter is an introduction The other chapters including the conclusion are essays about Human Animal Relations in Art Science Displaying Death and Animating Life by examining Desmond s relationship with two pet birds she has known Jane C Desmond s book is an interesting book of essays on Human Animal Relations in Art Science and Everyday Life 9780226144061
| Displaying Death and Animating Life: Human-Animal Relations in Art, Science, and Everyday Life (Animal Lives) By Jane C. Desmond |
| 0226144062 |
| 9780226144061 |
| English |
| 312 |
| Paperback |