The Dog's Gaze: A Visual History by Thomas W. Laqueur #joyce Initially feted

Initially feted

‘Starts with an erupting volcano – and then gets more exciting … Wonderfully rich

ISBN: 9781785949401

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The Dog's Gaze: A Visual History by Thomas W. Laqueur #joyce Initially fetedWhat do dogs do in art? Long before the phrase mans best friend became common parlance, dogs were already standing beside us in art as in life. In The Dogs Gaze, the historian Thomas W. Laqueur invites us to explore why they feature more than any other animal in the ways in which we picture ourselves and our stories. Dogs have been ubiquitous in the worldmaking of visual artists as far back as the Palaeolithic age. Looking across the western