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The human animal in Western art and science

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Kemp, Martin
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Title The human animal in Western art and science / Martin Kemp.
Publisher Chicago : University of Chicago Press
Creation Date 2007
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-297) and index.
Content Introduction: facing up to ourselves -- Humors, temperaments, and signs -- Fixing the signs -- Feelings and faces -- Souls and machines -- From meaning to mechanism -- Fable and fact: La Fontaine and Buffon -- Going ape -- Beastly boys and admirable animals -- Our animal cousins -- Art and atavism -- A literary-cinematic postscript -- A personal footnote.
Series Louise Smith Bross lecture series
Extent xix, 307 pages : ill., facsims., ports
29 cm.
Language English
National Library system number 990026334760205171

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