ANST-UA 300 - Animals in Art and Literature

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New York University

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Description:

The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss said that animals featured so prominently in myth and ritual "not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'" The history of art and literature suggests that they are also good to paint, to sculpt, to photograph, to film, and to write about. This course uses methodologies and perspectives offered by the emerging field of animal studies to explore how artists use the figure of the animal and the subject of animality in their work. Studies a range of contemporary representations of animals-in fiction, poetry, film, and the visual arts-with a view to understanding how the contemporary cultural imagination configures the ethics, politics, and aesthetics of the relationship between humans and other animals.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.nyu.edu

Phone Number:

(212) 998-1212

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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