书名：Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century / 神话与动物园：十九世纪的狮子形象
定价：540.0
ISBN：9780300253207
作者：Katie Hornstein
版次：1
出版时间：2024-01

内容提要：

题 目：Myth and Menagerie: Seeing Lions in the Nineteenth Century / 神话与动物园：十九世纪的狮子形象

作 者：Katie Hornstein

出 版：Yale University Press，2024

装 帧：精装，272页

尺 寸：20.3*25.4 cm

 

 

一项关于人与狮子相遇的创新研究，以及这些魅力动物在后革命法国视觉文化中的表现。

 

自古以来，在艺术传统中，狮子一直与力量和权威联系在一起。十九世纪的法国，狮子形象处于这些历史含义与重塑动物意义之当代发展（如公共动物园中狮子的实际存在）的十字路口。

 

在这项极具原创性的研究中，凯蒂·霍恩斯坦探讨了动物、观赏和视觉创作之间的关系。她研究了艺术家、观众和狮子之间在动物园、马戏团、画布上以及书籍页面中的迷人相遇，并认为正是这些相遇催生了关于权力、帝国和自然世界的新认知。

 

《神话与动物园》一书审视了一系列视觉对象，将马戏团动物的照片、狩猎手册、动物园指南与西奥多·热里科、欧仁·德拉克罗瓦、爱德华·马奈和罗莎·博纳尔等艺术家的雕塑、素描和绘画作品进行了对话。霍恩斯坦在社会变革和殖民扩张的背景下揭示了单只狮子的生活，构建了一个新的理论框架，用于思考动物不仅仅是符号或被动主体，并承认一段人类和动物都参与其中的历史。

 

An innovative examination of encounters between humans and lions and representations of these charismatic animals in the visual culture of postrevolutionary France

 

In artistic traditions that stretch back to antiquity, lions have been associated with strength and authority. The figure of the lion in nineteenth-century France stood at a crossroads between these historical meanings and contemporary developments that recast the animal’s significance, such as the literal presence of lions in public menageries.

 

In this highly original study, Katie Hornstein explores the relationships among animals, spectatorship, and visual production. She examines the fascinating encounters between artists, viewers, and lions that took place—in menageries and circuses, on canvases, and on the pages of books—and out of which, she argues, new perceptions of power, empire, and the natural world emerged.

 

Myth and Menagerie considers a range of visual objects, bringing into dialogue photographs of circus animals, hunting manuals, and zoo guidebooks with sculptures, drawings, and paintings by artists such as Théodore Géricault, Eugène Delacroix, édouard Manet, and Rosa Bonheur. Illuminating the lives of individual lions against the backdrop of societal change and colonial expansion, Hornstein constructs a fresh theoretical framework for thinking about animals as more than symbols or passive subjects and for acknowledging a history in which both humans and animals had a stake.