{"product_id":"9789053308356","title":"Other Animals","description":"Other Animals is the sequel to American artist Elliot Ross’ critically acclaimed book of photographic animal portraits titled Animal (Schilt\u003cbr\u003ePublishing 2010). Approaching more closely subjects of many species, he has continued examining his thoughts and feelings about being an animal in a world with other animals: the wonder and beauty, as well as the unease. In this book he studies other species’\u003cbr\u003esimilarities and differences, their textures, physiques, and apparent physiognomies while using free-hand drawing techniques he has developed within digital imaging. The result is a group of strikingly sculptural black-and-white portraits that are at once photographs and drawings.\u003cbr\u003eEach image in Animal is not only a portrait of a non-human animal; it is, in many ways, a self-portrait (for each of us shares DNA with other species) and also a question: What can be known and what is unknowable in our relationships with other animal species? I believe no one has summarized the psychological complexity of how we relate to other animals better than this contemporary American philosopher: In the case of our relationship with animals, a sense of the difficulty with reality may involve…a sense of astonishment and incomprehension that there should be beings so like us, so unlike us,\u003cbr\u003eso astonishingly capable of being companions of ours and so unfathomably distant. How powerfully strange it is that they and we should share as much as we do, and also not share; that they should be capable of incomparable beauty and delicacy and terrible ferocity;\u003cbr\u003ethat some among them should be so mind-bogglingly weird or repulsive in their forms or in their lives. - Cora Diamond","brand":"Schilt Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47060549861616,"sku":"9789053308356","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789053308356_p0.jpg?v=1763670319","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789053308356","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}