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Becoming Animal
Nato Thompson
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Description for Becoming Animal
Hardcover. Contemporary artists investigate the boundaries between animal and human in a world of transgenics and dissolving distinctions; with 65 color images of new works. Editor(s): Thompson, Nato. Num Pages: 140 pages, 65 color illus. BIC Classification: AGN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 262 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1036.
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, not surprisingly, leads to a greater understanding of what it means to be human. In Becoming Animal, 12 internationally known artists investigate the shifting boundaries ... Read more
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, not surprisingly, leads to a greater understanding of what it means to be human. In Becoming Animal, 12 internationally known artists investigate the shifting boundaries ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
140
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
Weight
1035g
Number of Pages
140
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262201612
SKU
V9780262201612
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Ref
99-1
About Nato Thompson
Nato Thompson is Chief Curator at the New York-based public arts institution Creative Time. He edited The Interventionists: Users' Manual for the Creative Disruption of Everyday Life and Becoming Animal (both published by the MIT Press) and curated the MASS MoCA exhibitions they accompanied. Nato Thompson is Chief Curator at the New York-based public arts institution Creative Time. He edited ... Read more
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