Why Paint Cats: The Ethics of Feline Aesthetics
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (744 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1580082718 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly While the popular and enduring Why Cats Paint (1994) profiled the creative output of house pets, highlighting tabbies and Persian long-hairs with smeary abstract canvases they ostensibly made, the authors' latest volume inverts the paradigm, and offers instead the cat-as-canvas. Amusing as a novelty item if nothing else (and very amusing at that), the book also offers a gentle kick in the pants to the gods of art criticism: a cat painted like a fish, for example, succeeds in "redefining and blurring the relationship between fur and scale, fin and tail, in order to create a shared intent that transubstantiates the species and repositions the notion of symbiosis." It's all so weird that it's sort of irresistible. Presented as the document of a
Tink said Fantastic coffee table book!. I bought this book several times to give as a gift. There is nothing else like it, except it's sequel :-) You just have to see the beautiful photos to believe it.. Robert I. Hedges said Funny and Edgy. Warning: This book is not for people who take themselves (or anything else) too seriously.I love "Why Paint Cats." The photography and concepts are incredibly well executed and clever. The commentary and 'interviews' are the best part of the work, pokin. "Pictures and artwork are beautiful. Very disappointed in size," according to Kendafan. I was really disappointed with the book. This was totally my fault as I did not read the description carefully. I would have never guessed that this book could come so small. I thought for the price I was getting the large coffee table size that my opth
Following the international success of their previous collaboration of feline aesthetics, WHY CATS PAINT, Burton Silver and Heather Busch turn their scholarly attention to the cat as canvas. Why did a woman in California pay an artist $5,000 to paint her cat to look like a pig? What made a New York stockbroker spend even more than that to have the image of Charlie Chaplin painted on his cat'¬?s posterior? WHY PAINT CATS reveals that, far from being an amusement for the idle rich, this seemingly aberrant behavior is part of a new art movement that claims to prom