Art, Animals, and Experience: Relationships to Canines and the Natural World

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List Of Figures -- List Of Color Plates -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Relational Ethics And Aesthetics -- Being And Thinking With Art And Animals -- Between Presence And Absence -- An Ethical Art History -- 2 Dogged Flesh: Rembrandt's Presentation In The Temple, C. 1640 -- Real And Represented Dogs -- Rembrandt's Three R's: Radical, Reflective, Revelatory -- The Rhetoric Of Etching -- Fleshly Experience -- Past Made Present -- 3 Glances With Wolves: Encounters With Little John And Joseph Beuys -- Entangled Encounters -- Seeing And Being With Little John -- Presencing Other Worlds -- Imaginative Empathy -- Gathering Together In The Gap -- 4 Glimpse Into The Unknown: Contemporary Taxidermy And Photography -- Spaces Between: Yellow And Taza -- Respecting Unknowns -- Dominance, Submission, And Freedom: Inert And Progression Of Regression -- Death And The Object (ars Longa Vita Brevis Est) -- From Hierarchy To Horizontality -- 5 We Are All Connected: Experiencing Art And Nature At Horseshoe Canyon -- Guided By Dogs And Children -- We Are All Connected--dwelling With Dogs And Earth -- Accessing Histories With Attentive Care -- Art And Earth As Places Of Emergence -- 6 Caring For Art And Animals -- Bibliography -- Index