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Becoming animal

Abstract

Brutally and forcefully, Becoming Animal connects the animalization of art history to the use of negatively charged animal metaphors in contemporary, everyday rhetoric. Unlike animals, humans are painfully conscious of their own existence and mortality. Becoming Animal explores this fact through works by Francisco de Goya, Albert Oehlen, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Matias Faldbakken and others.

Contents

Census [Body Count] / Claus Cartensen -- Becoming Animal Through Curatorial Contagion / Anne Gregersen -- The Rehabilitation of Storm P as a Panther / Claus Cartensen -- Human Nature and Animal Nature / Raymond Tallis -- Issues with Atheism / Frederik Stjernfelt -- Animality: the Art of Mobile Borders and Inversions / Ron Broglio -- The Animalised Avant-Garde / Jens Tang Kristensen -- Becoming and the Animal: Two Approaches / Sven-Olov Wallenstein -- The Art of Becoming Animal and the Non-Transcendence of Artistry / Donald Preziosi -- P.P.P.: a Montage of Citations and Texts on the Death of Pier Paolo Pasolini / Claus Cartensen.

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    Berlin: Hatje Cantz, [2018]

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    • 3775744665
    • 9783775744669

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    • "This publication is published in connection with the exhibition Becoming Animal--curated by Claus Carstensen at Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, and the Museum of Religious Art, Lemvig"--Colophon.
    • "The publication is a manifestation of Carstensen's long-term research into attempts to explain human existence in art history. ... The publication is research based, with eight peer-reviewed articles by leading scholars in the field"--Foreword.

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