The human animal in Western art and science / Martin Kemp.

Author/creator Kemp, Martin
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Descriptionxix, 307 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm.
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SeriesLouise Smith Bross lecture series
Louise Smith Bross lecture series. ^A765719
Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 291-297) and index.
LCCN 2007005014
ISBN9780226430331 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0226430332 (cloth : alk. paper)