A Turner-nominated artist has loaned his new giant mantis sculpture to his former school to highlight the importance of art in education. David Shrigley returned to Beauchamp College in Oadby ...
Projecting our own human experiences onto other species can be a tricky business, and scientists often warn about the mistakes we can make when we engage in this sort of anthropomorphism.
The British artist David Shrigley has returned to his Midlands secondary school almost 40 years after graduating to unveil an animatronic sculpture of a giant praying mantis, in the hope that it ...
From there I turn to the visual material and focus on the representation of Hestia in two Attic black-figure vases from the early sixth century, which to my mind have been neglected in discussing ...
We have frogs, squirrels, insects, and birds represented too. There’s a certain anthropomorphic element to it, where people see human behavior in the animals, and that strengthens the connection ...