The Dog in Art

by Robert Rosenblum

This mock-serious study features images of dogs spanning the flowering of 18th-century Romanticism to the present. Paintings, photographs, drawings, sculptures and architecture present a dog's-eye view of the world in works by Stubbs, Turner, Gauguin, Manet, Renoir, Picasso, Warhol and Wegman.

Genres: Art, Dogs, Nonfiction

120 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

Robert Rosenblum was a curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and a professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University. He is the author of multiple volumes on modern and contemporary art, including The Paintings of August Strindberg and Paintings in the Musee d'Orsay. Rosenblum is the recipient of a Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism.

Reviews

[Atmospheric Eric · Rating 5 out of 5]

Animal lover or art enthusiast? Essential escapist reading material from NYU Professor and art historian extraordinaire Robert Rosenblum. Light enough not to take itself too seriously, it's also informative. Mr. Rosenblum takes you on an historical tour of art using dogs as primary examples. Depicted in a startling variety of styles, man's best friend is personified in human or even extra-human situations. A pooch's potpourri of portaiture.

Some powerful works are reproduced and discussed by such heavies as Goya and Turner as well as more humorous whimsicalities by Picasso and Gaugin. Only 100 pages but filled with hilarious surprises and fantastic discoveries. Can't wait to see the Alex Katz paintings at Milwaukee Art Museum again (see cover of second edition). Great theme!

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