Steve Baker
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680665
- eISBN:
- 9781452948782
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680665.003.0001
- Subject:
- Art, Visual Culture
The Introduction discusses the widespread mistrust of contemporary art that deals with animals, and argues for the necessary connection of creativity and trust. Testing this to the limit by examining ...
More
The Introduction discusses the widespread mistrust of contemporary art that deals with animals, and argues for the necessary connection of creativity and trust. Testing this to the limit by examining two artworks that brought about animals’ deaths, it explains why choosing neither to condone nor to condemn such works may be the only means by which anything will be learned from them.Less
The Introduction discusses the widespread mistrust of contemporary art that deals with animals, and argues for the necessary connection of creativity and trust. Testing this to the limit by examining two artworks that brought about animals’ deaths, it explains why choosing neither to condone nor to condemn such works may be the only means by which anything will be learned from them.
Steve Baker
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680665
- eISBN:
- 9781452948782
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680665.003.0007
- Subject:
- Art, Visual Culture
Chapter 6 illustrates the considerable diversity of practice within apparent singleness of purpose for Sue Coe, Britta Jaschinski and Angela Singer, three artists with a shared commitment to animal ...
More
Chapter 6 illustrates the considerable diversity of practice within apparent singleness of purpose for Sue Coe, Britta Jaschinski and Angela Singer, three artists with a shared commitment to animal rights, but also points to the spaces of uncertainty that are central to their work.Less
Chapter 6 illustrates the considerable diversity of practice within apparent singleness of purpose for Sue Coe, Britta Jaschinski and Angela Singer, three artists with a shared commitment to animal rights, but also points to the spaces of uncertainty that are central to their work.
Steve Baker
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680665
- eISBN:
- 9781452948782
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680665.003.0008
- Subject:
- Art, Visual Culture
Chapter 7 proposes three distinct exploratory perspectives on the ways animals figure in the works discussed in the preceding chapters, and in a few further examples. They concern questions of place, ...
More
Chapter 7 proposes three distinct exploratory perspectives on the ways animals figure in the works discussed in the preceding chapters, and in a few further examples. They concern questions of place, form and medium. The last of these considers whether the animal itself could be said to be the medium in which these artists are working.Less
Chapter 7 proposes three distinct exploratory perspectives on the ways animals figure in the works discussed in the preceding chapters, and in a few further examples. They concern questions of place, form and medium. The last of these considers whether the animal itself could be said to be the medium in which these artists are working.
Steve Baker
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680665
- eISBN:
- 9781452948782
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680665.003.0006
- Subject:
- Art, Visual Culture
Chapter 5 presents an account of Catherine Bell’s performance with forty dead squid in order to unpack some difficult questions about control, improvisation, and the relation of intentions to ...
More
Chapter 5 presents an account of Catherine Bell’s performance with forty dead squid in order to unpack some difficult questions about control, improvisation, and the relation of intentions to outcomes both for the artist and for her viewers.Less
Chapter 5 presents an account of Catherine Bell’s performance with forty dead squid in order to unpack some difficult questions about control, improvisation, and the relation of intentions to outcomes both for the artist and for her viewers.
Steve Baker
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680665
- eISBN:
- 9781452948782
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680665.001.0001
- Subject:
- Art, Visual Culture
The central question addressed in ARTIST|ANIMAL is simply this: what happens when artist and animal are brought into juxtaposition in the context of contemporary art? The book’s title deliberately ...
More
The central question addressed in ARTIST|ANIMAL is simply this: what happens when artist and animal are brought into juxtaposition in the context of contemporary art? The book’s title deliberately holds those two terms in juxtaposition, without specifying either the characteristics or the consequences of their alignment. Those are what the book goes on to explore. Its chapters consider artworks from the first decade of the twenty-first century by a small selection of contemporary artists from America, Europe and Australasia who engage directly with questions of animal life. These are artists, in other words, whose concern is with the nature and the quality of actual animal life, or with the human experience of actual animal lives. For the most part, at least, their art treats animals as creatures who actively share the more-than-human world with humans, rather than as mere symbols or metaphors for aspects of the so-called human condition. The spread is nevertheless still fairly wide, running from artists with ecological concerns, to those engaging with the temporary or permanent modification of animal bodies, to those seeking to further the cause of animal rights through their work. The features that distinguish this book from the very few others in the field are these: it draws on substantial first-hand interviews with the artists themselves; it explains how contemporary art makes a vital contribution to the wider cultural understanding of animal life; and it insists on the necessary connection of creativity and trust in both the making and the understanding of these artworks.Less
The central question addressed in ARTIST|ANIMAL is simply this: what happens when artist and animal are brought into juxtaposition in the context of contemporary art? The book’s title deliberately holds those two terms in juxtaposition, without specifying either the characteristics or the consequences of their alignment. Those are what the book goes on to explore. Its chapters consider artworks from the first decade of the twenty-first century by a small selection of contemporary artists from America, Europe and Australasia who engage directly with questions of animal life. These are artists, in other words, whose concern is with the nature and the quality of actual animal life, or with the human experience of actual animal lives. For the most part, at least, their art treats animals as creatures who actively share the more-than-human world with humans, rather than as mere symbols or metaphors for aspects of the so-called human condition. The spread is nevertheless still fairly wide, running from artists with ecological concerns, to those engaging with the temporary or permanent modification of animal bodies, to those seeking to further the cause of animal rights through their work. The features that distinguish this book from the very few others in the field are these: it draws on substantial first-hand interviews with the artists themselves; it explains how contemporary art makes a vital contribution to the wider cultural understanding of animal life; and it insists on the necessary connection of creativity and trust in both the making and the understanding of these artworks.
Steve Baker
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680665
- eISBN:
- 9781452948782
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680665.003.0005
- Subject:
- Art, Visual Culture
Chapter 4 uses the living peafowl in a Mircea Cantor installation to introduce questions about how art is or is not spoken about, and elaborates on those questions with reference to the work of Mary ...
More
Chapter 4 uses the living peafowl in a Mircea Cantor installation to introduce questions about how art is or is not spoken about, and elaborates on those questions with reference to the work of Mary Britton Clouse, spokesperson for the Justice for Animals Arts Guild.Less
Chapter 4 uses the living peafowl in a Mircea Cantor installation to introduce questions about how art is or is not spoken about, and elaborates on those questions with reference to the work of Mary Britton Clouse, spokesperson for the Justice for Animals Arts Guild.
Steve Baker
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680665
- eISBN:
- 9781452948782
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680665.003.0003
- Subject:
- Art, Visual Culture
Chapter 2 examines the way in which Lucy Kimbell’s rat-themed performance lecture gradually shaped its own ethical agenda as it explored the “different kinds of knowledge, desire and disgust” ...
More
Chapter 2 examines the way in which Lucy Kimbell’s rat-themed performance lecture gradually shaped its own ethical agenda as it explored the “different kinds of knowledge, desire and disgust” prompted by these creatures.Less
Chapter 2 examines the way in which Lucy Kimbell’s rat-themed performance lecture gradually shaped its own ethical agenda as it explored the “different kinds of knowledge, desire and disgust” prompted by these creatures.
Steve Baker
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680665
- eISBN:
- 9781452948782
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680665.003.0004
- Subject:
- Art, Visual Culture
Chapter 3 finds a degree of common ground between Catherine Chalmers’ photographic work with cockroaches and Eduardo Kac’s transgenic projects, in terms of how these to artists position and pace ...
More
Chapter 3 finds a degree of common ground between Catherine Chalmers’ photographic work with cockroaches and Eduardo Kac’s transgenic projects, in terms of how these to artists position and pace themselves in relation to the animals whose bodies figure (and are refigured) in their work.Less
Chapter 3 finds a degree of common ground between Catherine Chalmers’ photographic work with cockroaches and Eduardo Kac’s transgenic projects, in terms of how these to artists position and pace themselves in relation to the animals whose bodies figure (and are refigured) in their work.
Steve Baker
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816680665
- eISBN:
- 9781452948782
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816680665.003.0002
- Subject:
- Art, Visual Culture
Turning to examples with a more immediate concern for animal life, Chapter 1 explores the relation of spontaneity and reflection in Olly and Suzi’s environmental art practice, and the manner in which ...
More
Turning to examples with a more immediate concern for animal life, Chapter 1 explores the relation of spontaneity and reflection in Olly and Suzi’s environmental art practice, and the manner in which each new encounter with animals can shape the form of that practice and the artists’ understanding of it.Less
Turning to examples with a more immediate concern for animal life, Chapter 1 explores the relation of spontaneity and reflection in Olly and Suzi’s environmental art practice, and the manner in which each new encounter with animals can shape the form of that practice and the artists’ understanding of it.
Jean M. Langford
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816687176
- eISBN:
- 9781452948751
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816687176.003.0009
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
I outline the implications of a literality of ghosts for mourning, ethics, and ongoing relations with the dead. I reiterate the limitations of biopolitical and psychoanalytic theory (in some of its ...
More
I outline the implications of a literality of ghosts for mourning, ethics, and ongoing relations with the dead. I reiterate the limitations of biopolitical and psychoanalytic theory (in some of its versions), for recognizing and escaping the latent Christian logics of contemporary approaches to death.Less
I outline the implications of a literality of ghosts for mourning, ethics, and ongoing relations with the dead. I reiterate the limitations of biopolitical and psychoanalytic theory (in some of its versions), for recognizing and escaping the latent Christian logics of contemporary approaches to death.
