Beauty and the Beast: Human-Animal Relations as Revealed in Real Photo Postcards, 1905-1935

by Robert Bogdan and Arnold Arluke

Book Overview

From fairy tales to photography, nowhere is the complexity of human-animal relationships more apparent than in the creative arts. Art illuminates the nature and significance of animals in modern, Western thought, capturing the complicated union that has long existed between the animal kingdom and us. In Beauty and the Beast, authors Arluke and Bogdan explore this relationship through the unique lens of photo post-cards. This visual medium offers an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815609817
• ISBN13: 9780815609810
• Release Date: November 2010
• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Length: 294 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.7" x 11.2"