The Concept of the Animal and Modern Theories of Art

ISBN-13: 9781138054264 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 164 str.

Roni Gren

Opis

This book examines the importance of the animal in modern art theory. It focuses on the conceptual connections between the notions of art and animality in art theory between the 1750s and 1950s, and clarifies the status of the animal under modernity.

O autorze

Ph.D. Roni Grén is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku, Finland. His topics of research have been centered on modern art theory and French culture. Formerly, he has written a book on Georges Bataille’s writings on art, and is currently working on research entitled "Prehistory and Modernism."