Postmodern Animal

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Postmodern Animal
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Steve Baker
SeriesAnimal Series
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:208
Dimensions(mm): Height 190,Width 135
Category/GenreArt and design styles - Postmodernism
Zoology and animal sciences
ISBN/Barcode 9781861890603
ClassificationsDewey:700.462
Audience
General
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Reaktion Books
Imprint Reaktion Books
Publication Date 1 March 2000
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

In this text, Steve Baker explores how animal imagery has been used in modern and contemporary art and performance, and in postmodern philosophy and literature, to suggest and shape ideas about identity and creativity. The author analyzes the work of such British and American artists as Olly and Suzi, Mark Dion, Paula Rego and Sue Coe, at the same time looking critically at the constructions, performances and installations of Robert Rauschenberg, Louise Bourgeois, Joseph Beuys and other significant late 20th-century artists.

Author Biography

Steve Baker is Professor in Historical and Critical Studies at the University of Central Lancashire and is the author of Picturing the Beast (1993).

Reviews

'This is a wonderful book ... Steve Baker provides the most cogent explanation so far of how the questioning of human identity ineluctably raises issues about animals ... He has given us a great gift, an understanding of a process unfolding during our own time.' -- Carol J. Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat