The human animal in Western art and science / Martin Kemp.
| Author/creator | Kemp, Martin |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007. |
| Description | xix, 307 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents only |
| Supplemental Content | Contributor biographical information |
| Supplemental Content | Publisher description |
| Subjects |
| Series | Louise 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 note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-297) and index. |
| LCCN | 2007005014 |
| ISBN | 9780226430331 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0226430332 (cloth : alk. paper) |