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portada Enlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art: Sensation, Matter, and Knowledge
Type
Physical Book
Author
Illustrated by
Publisher
Year
2023
Language
English
Pages
256
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
23.2x15.4x1.6 cm
Weight
0.64 kg.
ISBN13
9781350203624
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Enlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art: Sensation, Matter, and Knowledge

Sarah R. Cohen (Author) · Michael Yonan (Illustrated by) · Bloomsbury Visual Arts · Paperback

Enlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art: Sensation, Matter, and Knowledge - Cohen, Sarah R. ; Yonan, Michael

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Synopsis "Enlightened Animals in Eighteenth-Century Art: Sensation, Matter, and Knowledge"

How do our senses help us to understand the world? This question, which preoccupied Enlightenment thinkers in Western Europe, also emerged as a key theme in depictions of animals in eighteenth-century art. This book examines the ways in which painters, sculptors, porcelain modelers, and other decorative designers portrayed animals as sensing subjects who physically confirmed the value of material experience. The independent agency of animals with their own right to free existence, a topic of growing urgency in our own era, emerges in striking and often surprising ways within this early nexus of artistic experimentation. The sensual style known today as the Rococo encouraged the proliferation of animals as exemplars of empirical inquiry in the eighteenth century, ranging from the popular subject of the monkey artist to the alchemical wonders of the life-sized porcelain animals created for the Saxon court. Examining writings on sensory knowledge by La Mettre, Condillac, Diderot and other philosophers side by side with depictions of the animal in art, Cohen argues that artists promoted the animal as a sensory, thinking subject while also validating the material basis of their own professional practice.

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