Becoming Animal: Contemporary Art in the Animal Kingdom

by Joseph Thompson and Nato Thompson

Contemporary artists investigate the boundaries between animal and human in a world of transgenics and dissolving distinctions; with 65 color images of new works.

In an age when scientists say they can no longer specify the exact difference between human and animal, living and dead, many contemporary artists have chosen to use animals in their work--as the ultimate "other," as metaphor, as reflection. The attempt to discover what is animal,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262201615
• ISBN13: 9780262201612
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 10.3" x 10.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher