Art, Animals, And Experience: Relationships To Canines And The Natural World

Art, Animals, and Experience 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. Elizabeth Sutton is Associate Professor at the University of Northern Iowa. Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies For a full list of titles in this series, please visit www.routledge.com/Routledge-Advancesin-Art-and-Visual-Studies/book-series/RAVS 10 The Uses of Art in Public Space Edited by Julia Lossau and Quentin Stevens 11 On Not Looking The Paradox of Contemporary Visual Culture Edited by Frances Guerin 12 Play and Participation in Contemporary Arts Practices Tim Stott 13 Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art Meiqin Wang 14 Photography and Place Seeing and Not Seeing Germany After 1945 Donna West Brett 15 How Folklore Shaped Modern Art A Post-Critical History of Aesthetics Wes Hill 18 Gestures of Seeing in Film, Video and Drawing Edited by Asbjørn Grønstad, Henrik Gustafsson and Øyvind Vågnes 19 Looking Beyond Borderlines North America’s Frontier Imagination Lee Rodney 20 Intersecting Art and Technology in Practice Techne/Technique/Technology Edited by Camille C Baker and Kate Sicchio 21 Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice Edited by Christian Mieves and Irene Brown 22 W.J.T. Mitchell’s Image Theory Living Pictures Edited by Krešimir Purgar 16 Installation Art and the Practices of Archivalism David Houston Jones 23 The Politics of Contemporary Art Biennials Spectacles of Critique, Theory and Art Panos Kompatsiaris 17 Collaborative Art in the Twenty-First Century Edited by Sondra Bacharach, Jeremy Neil Booth and Siv B. Fjærstad 24 Art, Animals, and Experience Relationships to Canines and the Natural World Elizabeth Sutton Art, Animals, and Experience Relationships to Canines and the Natural World Elizabeth Sutton First published 2017 by Routledge 711 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2017 Taylor & Francis The right of Elizabeth Sutton to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identification an