Art for Animals - Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870–1914

Explores the ways in which visual imagery was used for animal advocacy campaigns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the ways in which these images were created, circulated, and consumed in a wide range of cultural contexts.

About the author

J. Keri Cronin is Associate Professor of Visual Arts at Brock University. She is the author of Manufacturing National Park Nature: Photography, Ecology, and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper.

Summary

Explores the ways in which visual imagery was used for animal advocacy campaigns in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the ways in which these images were created, circulated, and consumed in a wide range of cultural contexts.

Product details

• Authors: J. Keri Cronin, J. Keri (Brock University) Cronin, Keri Cronin, Cronin J. Keri
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2018
• EAN: 9780271080093
• ISBN: 978-0-271-08009-3
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 229 mm
• Weight: 499 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Animalibus; Animalibus
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; NATURE / Animal Rights, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Animals & society, General and world history, Art & Design Styles: Pre-Raphaelite Art, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General