Pesi Girsch aestheticises the corpses of dead animals on some of her photography. http://members.tripod.com/pesi_girsch/stillalife.htm (accessed 23rd April 08 ) On her bio she portrays herself with a baby kitten nevertheless: http://members.tripod.com/pesi_girsch/bio.htm (accessed 23rd April 08 ), so one can assume that she sees some qualitative difference between being amongst the living or being amongst the…Continue readingPesi Girsch’s “Nature Morte”
Who cares about what life? Nonhuman animal life becoming a part of yet another supposedly ethical environmental arts project. Insa Winkler: The Acorn Pig … Growing and growing up http://www.insawinkler.de/files/index_E.php?id=98 Can one really underlie nohuman animal life – or (might aswell) human life – the understanding of ethics and of arts that anybody might hold…Continue readingBeing a swine too
Spanish Dogs, other Dogs and other Animals, by Farangis Yegane A Spanish Dog by Farangis Yegane, 1994 A. Dogs: http://www.farangis.de/dogs/ B. My dog is not a hombre http://www.farangis.de/dogs/my_dog/my_dog.htm C. Observant One http://www.farangis.de/dogs/observant/observant_D.htm Two http://www.farangis.de/dogs/observant/observant_E.htmContinue readingFarangis paints the Spanish Dog
Why it sells? Troutsite http://www.troutsite.com/art-main.html is a site by an artist who successfully convinces his viewers that he is actually appreciating and probably even “scientifically respecting” nonhuman animals. See artist at: aldrichart.org Alongside his naturalistic artistic praise of Linnaeus’s taxonomic system (the man who came up with the category “Homo sapiens” …) the artist sells…Continue readingSelling nonhuman animal life
Torchy in Heartbeats “Jackie Ormes: The First African American Woman Cartoonist”: http://www.jackieormes.com/ a biography by Nancy Goldstein “Jackie Ormes’ cartoons often responded to events that were important to the black community, such as the brutal murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till in Mississippi. Till was killed in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman.” From…Continue readingJackie Ormes, brilliant cartoonist