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Beauty and the Beast: Human-Animal Relations as Revealed in Real Photo Postcards, 1905-1935
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 relations...more
Hardcover, 344 pages
Published
October 1st 2010
by Syracuse University Press
(first published January 1st 2010)
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The title here is pretty self-explanatory. This is a collection of early picture postcards featuring animals and people. The first few of chapters Pets, Mascots, and Workers are definitely the beauty half of this book. According to the beginning “photo postcards, postcards printed from negatives directly on commercially produced postcard stock” (p1) was very popular during the early part of the 1900’s. It was “during this postcard era animals were becoming a more meaningful part of human family...more
Describe Beauty and the Beast in one word you ask? Thorough. Well, maybe you didn't ask, but too bad, I told you anyway. I was very surprised by this book, I was expecting some cool pictures with a tad bit of social commentary and bam! Done. Well, no, it was much more...well...thorough, than that. The authors chose a specific period of time (1905-1935) in which to study photographs of human/animal relations in specific categories such as pets, mascots, workers, food, vermin, and symbols. The wri...more
I didn't really enjoy this in ebook format, as something felt missing with the pictures. I believe the authors did a wonderful, thorough job with their research, however. This book would be a best fit for others who are doing similar research between human and animals, rather than a light read for entertainment purposes since it was more of a technical book rather than what I had thought.
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