Ron Broglio

Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art

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ISBN 13:
9780816672974
author:
Ron Broglio
format:
Paperback
publisher:
University of Minnesota Press
language:
English
Publication Year:
2011
Pages:
176
Dimensions:
20.1 x 15 x 1.8 cm
Genre:
Art, Architecture & Photography, ,
Condition:
New
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Surface Encounters: Thinking with Animals and Art explores the idea of what it's like to be an animal. Ron Broglio examines how one can construct an animal phenomenology, or think and feel as an animal, rather than just observing from the outside.

Broglio challenges traditional philosophical views that animals lack self-reflexive thought, instead arguing that the surface can be a site of productive engagement with the world of animals. He focuses on contemporary artists who take seriously the world of the animal, developing languages of interspecies expression that both challenge philosophy and fashion new concepts for animal studies.

By considering artists such as Damien Hirst, Carolee Schneemann, Olly and Suzi, and Marcus Coates, Broglio reveals how these creatives use their work to express the world of animals on its own terms. This approach offers a fresh perspective on human-animal engagement and invites readers to think differently about our relationships with the natural world.

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