Visible Animals

“From the eighteenth century's preserved monsters to the twenty-first century's images of zoo polar bear Knut, the authors of Visible Animals foreground representations: not as transparent or objective acts but as visible and palpable forces working at micro and macro levels to shape cultural understandings and relationships to animals. After this book, the reader cannot look at commonplace images and figures of animals without thinking of how they are enframed and to what ends.” —Ron Broglio, Arizona State University