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Picturing animals in Britain, 1750-1850 / Diana Donald.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New Haven [Conn.] ; London : Yale University Press [for] The Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, c2007.Description: ix, 377 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9780300126792
  • 0300126794
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • N7660 .D67 2007
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Contents:
Joseph Wright's An experiment on a bird in the air pump -- pt. 1. 'Contemplations on the world of life' : natural science and the representation of animals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Picturing animals : the art of the impossible. The struggle for existence : a new vision of nature and man -- pt. 2. 'The psychology of beasthood' : from anthropocentrism to anthropomorphism. The elephant in the bookseller's shop : imagining the animal mind. Landseer's dogs -- pt. 3. Animals 'wild' and 'tame' : the imperium of civilised man. 'Captives from mountain and forest' : zoos and the imperial project. Prosperity and Adversity : the life of the horse -- pt. 4. The imagery of the hunt : a study in ambiguity. A 'well-grouped kill' : hunting culture and its visual expression. 'This natural, or unnatural tendency in the mind of man' : attacks on the hunting myth.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 307-368) and index.

Joseph Wright's An experiment on a bird in the air pump -- pt. 1. 'Contemplations on the world of life' : natural science and the representation of animals in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Picturing animals : the art of the impossible. The struggle for existence : a new vision of nature and man -- pt. 2. 'The psychology of beasthood' : from anthropocentrism to anthropomorphism. The elephant in the bookseller's shop : imagining the animal mind. Landseer's dogs -- pt. 3. Animals 'wild' and 'tame' : the imperium of civilised man. 'Captives from mountain and forest' : zoos and the imperial project. Prosperity and Adversity : the life of the horse -- pt. 4. The imagery of the hunt : a study in ambiguity. A 'well-grouped kill' : hunting culture and its visual expression. 'This natural, or unnatural tendency in the mind of man' : attacks on the hunting myth.