Innovative study of animal art histories in modern art
Animal Modernities challenges the traditional human-centered focus of art history and explores how modern art, visual culture, and modernity itself emerge from relationships between humans and animals. The essays in this volume reveal histories of exploitation and domination, as well as confusion and ambivalence, and occasional moments when affinities between humans and animals have been embraced, and animal agency asserted and acknowledged. The authors collectively point to the importance of thinking about animal–human relations for addressing today's ecological challenges.
Contributing authors: Niharika Dinkar (Boise State University), Katherine Fein (Amherst College), Annie Ronan (Virginia Tech), Michael Yonan (University of California, Davis), Alysia Garrison (Dartmouth College), Katie Hornstein (Dartmouth College), Daniel Harkett (Colby College), Amy Freund (Southern Methodist University), Sean Weiss (City College of New York), Catherine Girard (St. Francis Xavier College (Canada)), Rosalind (Roz) Hayes (University of Exeter), Emily Gephart (Tufts University), Maura Coughlin (Northeastern University), Laura Nuffer (Colby College), Nina Amstutz (University of Oregon), Stephanie Triplett (independent scholar)
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The volume is a valuable addition to the growing literature on artistic representations of human-animal relations, enriching scholarly discussions on both historical and contemporary interactions with animals and nature. - Roni Grén, University of Turku "Animal Modernities represents a much-needed addition and expansion to the history of art as well as to animal studies. The edited volume is a real eye-opener to how fundamental animals were for modern art. The authors challenge human exceptionalism by focusing on animals as singular personalities and on their agency. They offer either an innovative reading of old material, present material that is new to art historical discourse or develop innovative insights including an animal viewpoint. By doing so, they dismantle the structural violence in artefacts as well as art historical theories." - Jessical Ullrich, University of Fine Arts Münster
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Daniel Harkett and Katie Hornstein
Rethinking the Animal in Art History: Charles Darwin, Karl Woermann, and the
Bowerbird
Nina Amstutz
Photography Needs Animals: Materials, Processes, and the Colonial Supply
Chains of Gelatine Dry Plates
Rosalind Hayes
Shooting Elephants and the Performance of Imperial Power
Niharika Dinkar
A Tale of Two Serpents
Laur a Nüffer
Mourning across Species: Ivory Miniatures and Elephant Death
Katherine Fein
War Horses, Commemoration, and Mutilation:
Copenhagen (18081836) and Marengo (ca. 17931831) Katie Hornstein
To Fool a Fish: Exploring Interspecies Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century
Fly-Fishing
Emily Gephart
Feline Creativity on the Eve of Modernity
Amy Freund and Michael Yonan
The Bird that Cuts the Airy Way: William Blakes Avian Modernity
Alysia Garrison
Bovine Ubiquity
Maura Coughlin
Against the Visual: Seals, Indigenous-Settler Relations, and the Material
Culture of Sealing since 1697
Catherine Girard
Mr. Crowleys Signature: Race, Resistance, and the Queerness of American
Animal Portraiture
Annie Ronan
Memory and Materiality: Commemorating Canine Companions in Eighteenth-Century
Britain
Sean Weiss
Herd Mentality: Animal Relationality and QueerKinships in the Life and Work
of Anton Braith
Stephanie Triplett
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index
Daniel Harkett is associate professor in the Department of Art at Colby College. Daniel Harkett is associate professor in the Department of Art at Colby College. Katie Hornstein is professor in the Department of Art History at Dartmouth College. Katie Hornstein is professor in the Department of Art History at Dartmouth College.
