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Author	Kemp, Martin.
Title	The human animal in Western art and science / Martin Kemp.
Publication Info.	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Location	Call No.	Status
Stack 12	704.94 K	IN LIBRARY

Description	xix, 307 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Series	Louise Smith Bross lecture series
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-297) and index.
Contents	Introduction: facing up to ourselves -- Humors, temperaments, and signs -- Fixing the signs -- Feelings and faces -- Souls and machines -- From meaning to mechanism -- Fable and fact: La Fontaine and Buffon -- Going ape -- Beastly boys and admirable animals -- Our animal cousins -- Art and atavism -- A literary-cinematic postscript.
Subject	Animals in art.
	Animals -- Symbolic aspects.
	Symbolism in art -- Europe.
	Animals and civilization -- Europe.
	Human-animal relationships.
	Human body -- Symbolic aspects.
ISBN	9780226430331 (cloth : alk. paper)
	0226430332 (cloth : alk. paper)

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