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Martin Kemp

The Human Animal in Western Art and Science

320 pages, 187 halftones  8-1/2 x 11  © 2007
Series: Bross Lecture Series

Cloth $40.00

ISBN: 9780226430331   Published October 2007

     Illustrations

     The Louise Smith Bross Lectures by John Bross
     Preface and Acknowledgements

     Introduction: Facing up to Ourselves

PART I   HUMORS, TEMPERAMENTS, SIGNS

     1   Fixing the Signs
     2   Feelings and Faces

PART 2   SOULS AND MACHINES

     3   From Meaning to Mechanism
     4   Fable and Fact: La Fontaine and Buffon

PART 3   GOING APE

     5   Beastly Boys and Admirable Animals
     6   Our Animal Cousins
     7   Art and Atavism

     A Literary-Cinematic Postscript
     A Personal Footnote
     Notes
     Further Reading
     Index
    
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