Faculty Publications

Title

Art, animals, and experience: Relationships to canines and the natural world

Document Type

Book

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Art, Animals, and Experience: Relationships to Canines and the Natural World

First Page

1

Last Page

138

Abstract

Elizabeth Sutton, using a phenomenological approach, investigates how animals in art invite viewers to contemplate human relationships to the natural world. Using Rembrandt van Rijn’s etching of The Presentation in the Temple (c. 1640), Joseph Beuys’s social sculpture I Like America and America Likes Me (1974), archaic rock paintings at Horseshoe Canyon, Canyonlands National Park, and examples from contemporary art, this book demonstrates how artists across time and cultures employed animals to draw attention to the sensory experience of the composition and reflect upon the shared sensory awareness of the world.

Department

Department of Art

Original Publication Date

1-1-2017

DOI of published version

10.4324/9781315279459

Repository

UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

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