The Animal Within
Subtitle: Explaining the Bizarre and Ludicrous in Modern Art
Publisher: Book Guild Publishing
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Brighton, England
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 192
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: ix
label: Introduction; title: 1
label: Art and animal perception; title: PART ONE; title: Genesis
label: Chapter 1; title: 17
label: A brain within a brain: Our early animal mind and its modern master; title: Before Intelligence
label: Chapter 2; title: 31
label: An Animal view: Instinct and its perception of the world; title: Intelligent Perception
label: Chapter 3; title: 51
label: An ape becomes an artist: We evolve an awareness full of imagination; title: PART TWO; title: Primitive Art
label: Chapter 4; title: 66
label: Images on walls: Art becomes a way of hiding our animal perception; title: Demons and Gods
label: Chapter 5; title: 79
label: A fearful presence: Our animal mind becomes an inner place of torment; title: Traditional Art
label: Chapter 6; title: 89
label: Sensual perfection: Art keeps our animal mind buried under technical grandeur; title: PART THREE; title: The Start of Our Age
label: Chapter 7; title: 111
label: Our animal mind begins to make a return; title: Modern Art
label: Chapter 8; title: 167
label: Learning to live with the animal within; title: Conclusion
label: Chapter 9; title: 169
label: Why don't animals create art?; title: Acknowledgements; title: Bibliography