Fate of the Animals

Name: Fate of the Animals
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ISBN: 9781639821211

On Horses, the Apocalypse, and Painting as Prophecy

Morgan Meis

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Slant Books
15 September 2022

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; Individual artists, art monographs; Animals & nature in art (still life, landscapes & seascapes)

Series: Three Paintings Trilogy

In 1913, Franz Marc, one of the key figures of German Expressionism, created a masterpiece: The Fate of the Animals. With its violent slashes of color and line, the painting seemed to pre-figure both the outbreak of World War I and, more eerily, Marc's own death in an artillery barrage at the Battle of Verdun three years later.

With his signature blend of wide-ranging erudition and lively, accessible prose, Morgan Meis explores Marc's painting in depth, guided in part by a series of letters Marc wrote to his wife Maria while he was a soldier in the war. In those letters, Marc explores the nature of art, the fate of European civilization, and the inner spiritual nature of all life.

Along the way, Meis brings in other artists such as D.H. Lawrence, Edgar Degas, and Paul Klee to flesh out his argument. The Fate of the Animals also explores the darker undercurrents of German apocalyptic thinking in Marc's time, especially Norse mythology and the ancient Vedic texts as they influenced Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.

The Fate of the Animals is the second volume of Meis's Three Paintings Trilogy, the first volume of which, The Drunken Silenus, examined a painting by Rubens. The third volume (forthcoming) will consider a painting by Joan Mitchell.

By: Morgan Meis
Imprint: Slant Books
Volume: 2
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 345g
ISBN: 9781639821211
ISBN 10: 163982121X
Series: Three Paintings Trilogy
Pages: 200
Publication Date: 15 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Morgan Meis writes about art and culture for such magazines as n+1, Harper's, and Slate. He is a contributor at The New Yorker. He won the Whiting Award for nonfiction in 2013. He has a PhD in philosophy from The New School for Social Research. He lives in Detroit.

Reviews for Fate of the Animals: On Horses, the Apocalypse, and Painting as Prophecy

Praise for The Drunken Silenus A real one-off . . . absolutely compelling reading. -ROWAN WILLIAMS, former Archbishop of Canterbury In The Drunken Silenus, Morgan Meis doesn't dabble in faux honesty. He goes for the real deal, and the book is all the better for it. Although he barely writes about his personal life, The Drunken Silenus is as much of a warts-and-all self-portrait as any the autofiction boom has produced. -JACKSON ARN, Art in America [This] book's most valuable innovation . . . is nothing less than the tragic ecphrasis he performs as he ""reads"" Rubens's Drunken Silenus. . . . -RAFAËL NEWMAN, 3 Quarks Daily Meis's long essay about one particular Rubens painting reminded me [that] in the examination of the particular we are able to ponder deep truths. -LEANNE OGASAWARA, Dublin Review of Books . . . a book that forces me to ask, as few books have done in a long while, not only who I am but how I am to be. A book that puts me on the spot about what it means that I'm a mortal being, destined for death. And . . . how that meaning should shape my behavior going forward. . . . -GEORGE DARDESS, Close Reading blog