Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves
«
“This is a lovely collection of vernacular 19th- and 20th-century images of dogs and their owners.”
—Rebecca Onion Slate
»
Dogs are as ubiquitous in American culture as white picket fences and apple pie, embracing all the meanings of wholesome domestic life-family, fidelity, comfort, protection, nurturance, and love-as well as symbolizing some of the less palatable connotations of home and family, including domination, subservience, and violence. Les mer
Animal studies scholars have long argued that our representation of animals in print and in the visual arts has a profound connection to our lived cultural identity. Other books have documented the depiction of dogs in art and photography, but few have reached beyond the subject's obvious appeal. Picturing Dogs, Seeing Ourselves draws on animal, visual, and literary studies to present an original and richly contextualized visual history of the relationship between Americans and their dogs. Though the personal stories behind these everyday photographs may be lost to us, their cultural significance is not.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780271063317
- Utgivelsesår
- 2014
- Format
- 23 x 20 cm
Anmeldelser
«
“This is a lovely collection of vernacular 19th- and 20th-century images of dogs and their owners.”
—Rebecca Onion Slate
»
«
“Ann-Janine Morey's book is a treasure trove of photographs created by ordinary people. Together these document what Morey calls the ‘romance’ of dogs and humans—a story of love, domination, primitivism, and ‘Edenic longings’—embodied in the presence of the dog among humans.”
—Teresa Mangum,University of Iowa
»