Animal Modernities - Images, Objects, Histories

Animal Modernities challenges the traditional human-centered focus of art history and explores how modern art, visual culture, and modernity itself emerge from relationships between humans and animals. The essays in this volume reveal histories of exploitation and domination, as well as confusion and ambivalence, and occasional moments when affinities between humans and animals have been embraced, and animal agency asserted and acknowledged. The authors collectively point to the importance of thinking about animal-human relations for addressing today's ecological challenges.
Daniel Harkett is associate professor in the Department of Art at Colby College.
Katie Hornstein is professor of art history at Dartmouth College.

About the author

Daniel Harkett is associate professor in the Department of Art at Colby College.

Katie Hornstein is professor of art history at Dartmouth College.

Product details

• Assisted by: Daniel Harkett (Editor), Katie Hornstein (Editor)
• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 01.08.2025
• EAN: 9789462704589
• ISBN: 978-94-6270-458-9
• No. of pages: 320
• Weight: 454 g
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history