Author: Elizabeth Sutton

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-04-21

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1315279444

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Color Plates -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Relational Ethics and Aesthetics -- Being and Thinking with Art and Animals -- Between Presence and Absence -- An Ethical Art History -- 2 Dogged Flesh: Rembrandt's Presentation in the Temple, c. 1640 -- Real and Represented Dogs -- Rembrandt's Three R's: Radical, Reflective, Revelatory -- The Rhetoric of Etching -- Fleshly Experience -- Past Made Present -- 3 Glances with Wolves: Encounters with Little John and Joseph Beuys -- Entangled Encounters -- Seeing and Being with Little John -- Presencing Other Worlds -- Imaginative Empathy -- Gathering Together in the Gap -- 4 Glimpse into the Unknown: Contemporary Taxidermy and Photography -- Spaces Between: Yellow and Taza -- Respecting Unknowns -- Dominance, Submission, and Freedom: Inert and Progression of Regression -- Death and the Object (Ars longa vita brevis est) -- From Hierarchy to Horizontality -- 5 "We Are All Connected": Experiencing Art and Nature at Horseshoe Canyon -- Guided by Dogs and Children -- "We Are All Connected"--Dwelling with Dogs and Earth -- Accessing Histories with Attentive Care -- Art and Earth as Places of Emergence -- 6 Caring for Art and Animals -- Bibliography -- Index