THE HUMAN ANIMAL: IN WESTERN ART AND SCIENCE
Book ID/图书代码： 13560007B11641
English Summary/英文概要： From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children’s stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. But the comparisons run both ways, as metaphors, stories, and images—as well as scientific theories—throughout history remind us that humans often act like animals, and that the line separating them is not as clear as we’d like to pretend.
Here Martin Kemp explores a stunning range of images and ideas to demonstrate just how deeply these underappreciated links between humans and other fauna are embedded in our culture. Tracing those interconnections among art, science, and literature, Kemp leads us on a dazzling tour of Western thought, from Aristotelian physiognomy and its influence on phrenology to the Great Chain of Being and Darwinian evolution. We learn about the racist anthropology underlying a familiar Degas sculpture, see paintings of a remarkably simian Judas, and watch Mowgli, the man-child from Kipling’s The Jungle Book, exhibit the behaviors of the beasts who raised him. Like a kaleidoscope, Kemp uses these stories to refract, reconfigure, and echo the essential truth that the way we think about animals inevitably inflects how we think about people, and vice versa.
Loaded with vivid illustrations and drawing on sources from Hesiod to La Fontaine, Leonardo to P. T. Barnum, The Human Animal in Western Art and Science is a fascinating, eye-opening reminder of our deep affinities with our fellow members of the animal kingdom.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 从懒散地跳来跳去的蚱蜢到鬼鬼祟祟的大灰狼，儿童故事和寓言以其拟人化的动物形象吸引着我们。而这种比较也是双向的，历史上积累下来的比喻、故事和形象——以及科学理论——都在提醒我们，人类往往表现地像动物，并且两者之间的界线并不像我们自认为的那样清晰分明。
在这里，Martin Kemp探索了大量的形象和想法，以证明人类与其它动物之间被低估了的联系在我们的文化中嵌入有多深。通过从艺术、科学和文学中跟踪这些相互联系，Kemp带领我们遨游西方思想界，从亚里士多德的相貌学以及其对颅相学的影响到“存在之链”到达尔文的进化论，令人眼花缭乱。通过学习我们得知种族主义人类学是我们所熟悉的一尊德加雕塑的基础，我们欣赏了将犹大画得极像猿猴的画作，关注Kipling的《丛林奇谈》中由野兽养育长大的人类儿童Mowgli。这些故事精彩如万花筒。Kemp运用这些故事来折射、重构和呼应一个重要真理，即，我们看待动物的方式不可避免地反映出我们如何看待人类，反之亦然。
《西方艺术和科学中的人和动物》这本书充满了生动的图片，引用了从赫西奥德到拉•封丹，从列奥纳多到P•T•巴纳姆的多种资料。这是一部令人大开眼界的书，时刻提醒着我们与动物王国成员之间深刻的亲近关系。(LNL)
Awards/获奖情况：“Martin Kemp的工作就像是在一块巨大的画布上探索人类与动物世界的关系，这是自文艺复兴以来西方社会对于该主题的一次探索。这本书展示了作者在科学和历史领域的广泛涉猎，但其坚实的基础是源于Kemp掌握的视觉艺术知识。他原创的有趣的视觉证据使用法使得这本书可不仅仅是一本花里胡哨的咖啡桌消遣书。”（David M.骑士，达勒姆大学）。
“在《西方艺术和科学中的人和动物》中，Martin Kemp显示了与众不同的博学和严谨性。任何着迷于人类和动物的人将会从他的叙述中学到许多知识。”（Philip Campbell，《自然》总编辑）。
About the Author/作者介绍： Martin Kemp是牛津大学的艺术史教授，是多部书的作者，其中包括最近出版的《看过与未看过：艺术和科学的视觉角度》、《视觉：科学和艺术的“自然”之书》。
Martin Kemp is professor of the history of art at Oxford University and the author of many books, including, most recently, Seen and Unseen: Visual Angles on Art and Science and Visualizations: The "Nature" Book of Science and Art.
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