1668: The Year of the Animal in France

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$42.00  $39.06
Publisher
Zone Books
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Pages
496
Dimensions
6.2 X 9.1 X 1.8 inches | 2.35 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781935408994

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About the Author
Peter Sahlins is Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley.
Reviews

Peter Sahlins examines the disruptive influence of the new menagerie at Versailles, alongside other events... packed with fascinating history about animals in the 17th century, particularly their appearances in art.

--Hyperallergic

Sahlins's account is a model of what can be accomplished by cultural history... the virtue of Sahlin's account is that he shows how culture, politics, and science can be permeated with animal concerns.

--New York Review of Books

Did Le Brun's drawings mean to dissolve a findamental division between human and animal, to reveal how we are all united far more closely than anthropocentric religion and sience woudl have us believe? This is one of the many questions that preoccupates the historian Peter Sahlin in 1668: The Year of the Animal in France. As it happens, Le Brun's sketchwork turns out to be just one moment in the monentous year in which everyone, it seemed, was looking at the animal wtih new eyes.

--Los Angeles Review of Books

Sahlins brilliantly analyses a chronology of events from 1661, when Louis XIV started to personally assume leadership of the government, to 1674 and the completion of the Royal Labyrinth in the gardens of Versailles...

--ESPACE Art actuel

Sensitive, intelligent, and well-informed readings of specific cultural monuments and encounters. Each of Sahlins's case studies provides insights and surprises, and each displays his ability to see connections among apparently disparate phenomena.

--Journal of Modern History