Aloi, Preface to Art & Animals George Stubbs, “Whistlejacket” (1762) Classical Illustrated Zoologies and Related Works, 1550-1900 Aloi quotes Laurie Schneider Adams, in a book on contemporary art, as claiming that “spiders, unlike humans, are not inspired by aesthetics or narrative ideas.” The artistic instinct, according to Adams, is innate in human beings and foreign …
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