Steve Baker is emeritus professor of art history at the University of Central Lancashire. He is the author of The Postmodern Animal; Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation, and, with the Animal Studies Group, Killing Animals.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Idiot, the Voyeur, and the Moralist

1. An Openness to Life: Olly and Suzi in the Antarctic

On Drawing an Aardvark

2. Cycles of Knowing and Not-Knowing: Lucy Kimbell, Rats, and Art

On “Ethics”

3. Vivid New Ecologies: Catherine Chalmers and Eduardo Kac

On Artists and Intentions

4. Of the Unspoken: Mircea Cantor and Mary Britton Clouse

On Maddening the Fly

5. Almost Posthuman: Catherine Bell’s Handling of Squid

On Cramping Creativity

6. Art and Animal Rights: Sue Coe, Britta Jaschinski, and Angela Singer

On Relevant Questions

7. The Twisted Animals Have No Land Beneath Them

Afterword: Art in a Post-Animal Era?

Notes

Index

Steve Baker is emeritus professor of art history at the University of Central Lancashire. He is the author of The Postmodern Animal; Picturing the Beast: Animals, Identity, and Representation, and, with the Animal Studies Group, Killing Animals.