Concept of the Animal and Modern Theories of Art

Ph.D. Roni Grén is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Turku, Finland. His topics of research have been centered on modern art theory and French culture. Formerly, he has written a book on Georges Bataille’s writings on art, and is currently working on research entitled "Prehistory and Modernism."

• Table of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1 The Exceptionality of the Human SpiritThe Human ExceptionNatural AestheticsOrigin and LanguageNature Created in Man’s ImageTo Have and Have NotPart 2 The Animal and the ImageIntroduction: Discourse and ImagicityCondillac and Animal ImaginationRousseau and the Noble VisualDiderot’s SuspicionA Concluding NotePart 3 Art and EvolutionIntroduction: Darwin’s CenturyThe Subjective and the ObjectiveThe Crisis of Symbolism and the Violent OtherEvolution of the Species and the Creative SentimentNietzschePart 4 The Poetic LieThe Primitive Origin of ArtGaze and the InvisibleThe World of Abstraction and the Revolution of the BeastsDream, Debauchery, MythPart 5 Conclusion: The Modern OtherAnimalization of ArtThe Formalist World of CreationThe Surrealist SolutionsThe Animal ItselfAfterwordBibliographyIndexTable of ContentsList of FiguresAcknowledgmentsIntroductionPart 1 The Exceptionality of the Human SpiritThe Human ExceptionNatural AestheticsOrigin and LanguageNature Created in Man’s ImageTo Have and Have NotPart 2 The Animal and the ImageIntroduction: Discourse and ImagicityCondillac and Animal ImaginationRousseau and the Noble VisualDiderot’s SuspicionA Concluding NotePart 3 Art and EvolutionIntroduction: Darwin’s CenturyThe Subjective and the ObjectiveThe Crisis of Symbolism and the Violent OtherEvolution of the Species and the Creative SentimentNietzschePart 4 The Poetic LieThe Primitive Origin of ArtGaze and the InvisibleThe World of Abstraction and the Revolution of the BeastsDream, Debauchery, MythPart 5 Conclusion: The Modern OtherAnimalization of ArtThe Formalist World of CreationThe Surrealist SolutionsThe Animal ItselfAfterwordBibliographyIndex