- Animal Figures
Page 7 to 12
The Bestiary of Caricature
Page 13 to 37
Page 39 to 64
The Bestiary of Writers
Page 67 to 90
Page 91 to 101
Bestiary and Animals in Contemporary Art
Page 103 to 118
Page 119 to 140
Page 141 to 154
Page 155 to 166
Fat Oxen and Thin Cows. ..
Page 167 to 191
Places and Resources
Page 193 to 203
Alternating Viewpoints
Page 205 to 214
On the Subject of. ..
Page 215 to 223
Reviews
Page 225 to 231
News
Page 233 to 237
Feature Interview
Page 239 to 247
Miscellaneous Contributions
Page 249 to 265
By presenting some uses of animal figures in literature, caricature, arts, or sociability practices, Sociétés & Représentations chose to explore an extravagant bestiary that is highly multifaceted and polymorphic. Subject of student festivities in Montmartre in the late 19th century, it supports social or political criticisms in caricature, and these animal figures used for satiric purposes can be found in contemporary painting as in the work of Hans Grundig. These animal stories, with a nod to the great Colette, transport us from the more or less soft feminine literature of the 18th century and the strangeness of Simenon’s The Yellow Dog (metaphor of the 1929 crisis) through the literally extraordinary photographs of Gloria Friedmann and Alain Rivière-Lecoeur to the violence of Damien Hirst’s works or the dreamlike and obscure universe of Alfred Kubin. Our interrogation of the animal focuses on the living and leads us to question the relations human beings have with animals. The interdisciplinary approach gives an important place to iconography and image analysis.
Plural in its subject matter and pluralist with respect to suggested approaches, this transdisciplinary journal wants to be open to questions encountered by contemporary society in the familiarity of its forms while participating in a renewed way of thinking.
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