Beauty and the Beast: Human-Animal Relations as Revealed in Real Photo Postcards, 1905-1935 - Hardcover

Arluke, Arnold; Bogdan, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0815609817 ISBN 13: 9780815609810

Publisher: Syracuse University Press, 2010

Synopsis

From fairy tales to photography, nowhere is the complexity of human-animal relationships more apparent than in the creative arts. Art illuminates the nature and significance of animals in modern, Western thought, capturing the complicated union that has long existed between the animal kingdom and us. In Beauty and the Beast, authors Arluke and Bogdan explore this relationship through the unique lens of photo post­cards. This visual medium offers an enormous and relatively untapped archive to compelling document their subject.

About this title

About the Author:

Arnold Arluke is professor of sociology and anthropology at Northeastern University and Senior Research Fellow at the Tufts Center for Animals and Public Policy. Robert Bogdan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Social Science and Education at Syracuse University. He is the author of Real Photo Postcard Guide: The People’s Photography.

Review:

The human-animal bond is ready for its close-up and Arluke and Bogdan deliver... Thorough and thoughtful Beauty and the Beast will bust some present-day myths.... --Vicki Constantine Croke, author of The Ladey and the Panda

Look deepley... and the viewer is transported. Decades fade away, and we see with more clarity the closeness as well as the distance between ourselves and other animals.
--Lew Baer, writer, postcard aficionado

About this edition

• Publisher: Syracuse University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0815609817
• ISBN 13: 9780815609810
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 294