Art, Ethics and the Human-Animal Relationship

Linda Johnson

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Springer Nature Switzerland AG
22 September 2022

Art Forms; Philosophy: aesthetics; Ethics & moral philosophy; Bio-ethics

Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series

This book examines the works of major artists between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, as important barometers of individual and collective values toward non-human life. Once viewed as merely representational, these works can also be read as tangential or morally instrumental by way of formal analysis and critical theories. Chapter Two demonstrates the discrimination toward large and small felines in Genesis and The Book of Revelation. Chapter Three explores the cruel capture of free roaming animals and how artists depicted their furs, feathers and shells in costume as symbols of virtue and vice. Chapter Four identifies speciest beliefs between donkeys and horses. Chapter Five explores the altered Dutch kitchen spaces and disguised food animals in various culinary constructs in still life painting. Chapter Six explores the animal substances embedded in pigments. Chapter Seven examines animals in absentia-in the crafting of brushes. The book concludes with the fish paintings ofWilliam Merritt Chase whose glazing techniques demonstrate an artistic approach that honors fishes as sentient beings.

By: Linda Johnson
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2021 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 440g
ISBN: 9783030788353
ISBN 10: 3030788350
Series: The Palgrave Macmillan Animal Ethics Series
Pages: 308
Publication Date: 22 September 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Chapter 1: Introduction.- 2. Chapter 2: A New Breed: The Cat as Scapegoat in Edenic and Utopian Imagery.- 3. Chapter 3: Virtue and Vice in High Couture.- 4. Chapter 4: Transformational Approaches: Equine Speciesism.- 5. Chapter 5: Looking Askance: The Changing Shape Of “Meat” In Dutch Still Life Painting.- 6. Chapter 6: Historical Processes: Embodied /Embedded.- 7. Chapter 7: Absent Referents: Bristly Brushes.- 8. Chapter 8: Conclusion: Darkness into Light.-

Linda M. Johnson, Curator of Hancock Shaker Village (Living History Museum in Massachusetts, USA). Johnson’s research and teaching focus has been in American and European Art History at the University of Michigan-Flint, USA, and The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts, USA. She is a Senior Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics, UK. Publications include “Increase Mather: A Pre-Millennial Portrait During the Revocation of the Massachusetts Charter” in American Literature and the New Puritan Studies, (2018).

Reviews for Art, Ethics and the Human-Animal Relationship

“This work is a welcome addition to the growing list of scholarly books that take seriously the ways that representations of nonhuman animals have significant and important implications when it comes to larger issues around the treatment of the other animals we share the planet with. One of the many strengths of this book is that it offers concrete and detailed examples of ways that art historians can critically engage with these issues … .” (Keri Cronin, Journal of Animal Ethics, Vol. 13 (2), 2023)