Why Paint Cats: The Ethics of Feline Aesthetics
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (619 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1580082718 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-07-19 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Following the international success of their previous collaboration of feline aesthetics, WHY CATS PAINT, Burton Silver and Heather Busch turn their scholarly attention to the cat as canvas. Exhaustively researched and lavishly illustrated, this insightful and engaging book raises important ethical questions and explores the rights of pet owners to reinvent their cats in the name of art.. The authors detail all the latest trends in the movement, including the highly controversial Retromingent Expressionism, drawing conclusions that will provoke and amuse, startle, and enlighten. Why did a woman in California pay an artist $5,000 to paint her cat to look like a pig? What made a New York stockbroker spend even more than that to have the image of Charlie Chaplin painted on his cat'¬?s posterior? WHY PAINT CATS reveals that, far from being an amusement for the idle rich, this seemingly aberrant behavior is part of a new art movement that claims to promote a better understanding of the cats in our lives
"Fantastic coffee table book!" according to Tink. I bought this book several times to give as a gift. There is nothing else like it, except it's sequel :-) You just have to see the beautiful photos to believe it.. Funny and Edgy Warning: This book is not for people who take themselves (or anything else) too seriously.I love "Why Paint Cats." The photography and concepts are incredibly well executed and clever. The commentary and 'interviews' are the best part of the work, poking fun at everyone involved, especially art critics (fortunately). The authors have the stuffy sel. "Pictures and artwork are beautiful. Very disappointed in size," according to Kendafan. I was really disappointed with the book. This was totally my fault as I did not read the description carefully. I would have never guessed that this book could come so small. I thought for the price I was getting the large coffee table size that my opthamologist's office had. It is hard to appreciated the beautiful paintings in such a small size. I
Amusing as a novelty item if nothing else (and very amusing at that), the book also offers a gentle kick in the pants to the gods of art criticism: a cat painted like a fish, for example, succeeds in "redefining and blurring the relationship between fur and scale, fin and tail, in order to create a shared intent that transubstantiates the species and repositions the notion of symbiosis." It's all so weird that it's sort of irresistible. Perhaps the most amazing entry is a portrait of Charlie Chaplin, supposedly painted with peroxide and vegetable dye on the rear end of a ginger and white cat named Burger. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. . Rexes and Siamese sport rainbow colors on their faces and flanks or graphic designs on their hindquarters: cats are transformed into butterflies, or clowns, or furry American flags. Presented as the document of a developing art movement, the book features a potpourri of artists and their "s