Beauty of the Beast

By John Bascom
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Throughout time, artists have maintained a close relationship with the animal world, which has proved to be an inexhaustible source of inspiration. First, they received inspiration directly from their environment. Next, animals were used in art for their status as domestic friends, symbols of an intimate and familial life, held in particularly high esteem during the Renaissance. Later, in Orientalism, animal art followed the discovery of exotic fauna which appealed to contemporary artists. The animal and its wild beauty are depicted here through works of art from Albrecht Dürer, Pieter Bruegel, Leonardo da Vinci, Katsushika Hokusai, Henri Rousseau, and Paul Klee.

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GenreOther
Length1 hr 45 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 22, 2012
LanguageEnglish

Table of contents

1Beauty of Beauty of the Beast the Beast
2Author: John Bascom
3Featured Artists
4Hirschfield, Morris
5Hokusai, Katsushika
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6Warhol, Andy
7frequently concomitant with beauty and intimately related
8Bison Carved in Low Relief
9The Antelopes
10these always and everywhere manifest themselves as
11The Cat Goddess Bastet
12transforming, but simply a uniting power. Association
13the old and the familiar, since upon these associations it
14Cat clawing a Turkey-Cock, Ducks, Birds, and Seashells
15Ganesha
16A more careful examination of the very cases on
17A Bear Walking
18the attribute, or any definition of the word by which it
19or the reference of it to some source or cause whence it
20Sea Crab
21Hieronymus Bosch, c. 1500-1505 Oil on panel Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
22susceptible, then, of no definition, and the quality
23The conditions and relations of such an attribute
24Rearing Horse
25Barn Owl (Syrnium aluco)
26and the propriety of every effort toward progress, rest
27TRUTH AS A CONDITION OF BEAUTY
28Albrecht Dürer, 1515 Engraving, 21.4 x 29.8 cm The British Museum, London
29Lying Dog
30Albrecht Dürer, 1520-1521 Silverpoint, 12.3 x 17.5 cm The British Museum, London
31Head of a Walrus
32him from the patron of virtuous taste to the pander of a
33the critic now pleased with his own acuteness, now
34Giuseppe Arcimboldo Österreichische Nationalbibliothek,Vienna
35Study of a Northern Helmeted Curassow (Pauxi pauxi)
36Giuseppe Arcimboldo Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna
37detriment to the taste of a people, if one or two things
38Red Hartebeest and Blackbuck
39the mind, but in an agreeableness of design and
40Red Hartebeest and Mountain Coati
41distinctions between the right and wrong methods of
42Cervus elaphus
43aside from entire resemblance, and those features
44Still Life with Birds
45higher and the lower, as a constant effort on the part of
46Two Chained Monkeys
47Paradise
48Lion Attacking a Horse
49genuine as any work in wood or stone, for they will only
50CONNECTIONS OF ART AND NATURE

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