Ron Broglio bypasses the perspectives of biology or natural history to explore how one can construct an animal phenomenology, to think and feel as an animal other—or any other. Broglio considers contemporary artists who take seriously the world of the animal on its own terms, developing languages of interspecies expression that challenge philosophy and fashion new concepts for animal studies.
Background image: Olly and Suzi, Cheetahs, 1998. Photograph by Olly and Suzi of their work, Five Cheetahs. Courtesy of Olly and Suzi.
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The open access edition of this book has been generously supported by Arizona State University.
Chapter 1 was previously published as “Meat Matters from Hegel to Hirst,” Antennae: Journal of Nature in Visual Culture 14 (Winter 2010): 58–71. Chapter 3 was previously published as “Making Space for Animal Dwelling,” in (a)fly (Between Nature and Culture), ed. Bryndis Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson (Reykjavik: National Museum of Iceland, 2006), 21–27. Chapter 4 was previously published as “‘Living Flesh’: Human Animal Surfaces and Art,” Journal of Visual Culture 7, no. 1 (April 2008): 103–21, and as “‘Living Flesh’: Human Animal Surfaces and Art,” in Animals and the Human Imagination, ed. Aaron Gross and Anne Vallely (New York: Columbia University Press, 2011); copyright 2011 Columbia University Press; reprinted with permission of the publisher.
Translation of “The Eighth Elegy” in Duino Elegies (1922) by Rainer Maria Rilke reproduced courtesy of A. S. Kline.
Printed transcript from “Up to and Including Her Limits” by Carolee Schneemann reproduced courtesy of the artist.
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Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0).
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