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

ISBN-13:	9780815609810
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	11/10/2010
Pages:	344
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 11.30(h) x 0.90(d)

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 post­cards. This visual medium offers an enormous and relatively untapped archive to compelling document their subject.