Postmodern Animal

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Steve Baker, The Postmodern Animal (London: Reaktion Books, 2000).

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An early overview of the state of contemporary art’s engagement with animal themes, and the book in which the term ‘botched taxidermy’ was coined. - STEVE BAKER

Explores how animal imagery has been used in modern and contemporary art and performance, and in postmodern philosophy and literature. Draws important parallels between the animal's place in postmodern art and poststructuralist theory. - ANNIE POTTS