Noble Beasts: Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth-Century French Art - Image 1

£44.71

Yale University Press Noble Beasts: Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth-Century French Art

Name: Noble Beasts: Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth-Century French Art
Brand: Yale University Press
Price: 44.71 GBP
Availability: InStock

Plants & Animals

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£45 today · previous high £45 · all-time low £44

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 53 days · 53 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 53 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £45 (53 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £45 - £45

Price levels: 1 different prices over 53 days

Description

How visual fantasies of violence, animality, and political agency offered an alternative image of masculinity during the Enlightenment Centering on animal bodies and assertive masculinity, the visual strategies of hunting art may appear incongruent with our understanding of Rococo aesthetics and the early Enlightenment. But these themes, embraced with enthusiasm by artists and patrons, inspired artworks in every genre and medium in eighteenth-century France. As the country expanded its colonial empire, the absolute monarchy existed in tension with ambitious elites, and the Enlightenment eroded old certainties about selfhood and society, hunting art provided a visual language of personal and national sovereignty written with bodies of men and animals. Amy Freund revises our received notions of eighteenth-century French art and culture, confronting us with a visual culture of animality, violence, and death: a Rococo of dogs and guns. Noble Beasts highlights the work of François Desportes, Jean-Baptiste Oudry, and others who, operating from the heart of institutions such as the Royal Academy and the Gobelins manufactory, produced an astonishing volume of highly accomplished work. The book draws on the critical frameworks of human-animal studies and on Enlightenment philosophical debates to explore how and why hunting art's aesthetic and political claims blurred the lines between human and animal.

Product Specifications

Brand: Yale University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0300282702
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Themes & Concepts > Plants & Animals
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 09 May 2026
Listed Since: 16 June 2025

Barcode

No barcode data available

Yale University Press Noble Beasts: Hunters and Hunted in Eighteenth-Century French Art

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Hunting: The Ultimate Book

The Fox-Hunting Controversy, 1781-2004: Class and Cruelty

Jane Austen and Animals

Białowieża Primeval Forest: Nature and Culture in the Nineteenth Century: 11 (Environmental History, 11)

The History of Opposition to Blood Sports in Twentieth Century England: Hunting at Bay

The Royal Hunt in Eurasian History (Encounters with Asia)

The History of Opposition to Blood Sports in Twentieth Century England: Hunting at Bay

Routledge Animals and Hunters in the Late Middle Ages Book

Crowning Glories: Netherlandish Realism and the French Imagination during the Reign of Louis XIV

Hunting for Sustainability in Tropical Forests (Biology and Resource Management Series)

French Paintings of the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth Century (National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogues): 17

La Radicalisation de l'Ideal Republicain: Modeles Antiques Et La Revolution Francaise: 69 (L'Europe Des Lumieres)

Debating Foreign Policy in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Human-Animal Interactions in the Eighteenth Century: From Pests and Predators to Pets, Poems and Philosophy: 207 (Internationale Forschungen zur ... Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft, 207)

Konkurrenzen in der Frühen Neuzeit: Aufeinandertreffen – Übereinstimmung – Rivalität (Frühneuzeit-Impulse)

Trophy Hunting & Britain: The Case for a Ban: A report of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Banning Trophy Hunting

Cengage Bravo! Student Activity Manual - French Language Study

Animal Nature and Human Nature (Psychology Library Editions: Comparative Psychology)

The Matter of Mind: Reason and Experience in the Age of Descartes

Animal Writing: Storytelling, Selfhood and the Limits of Empathy (Crosscurrents)

Elephant Slaves and Pampered Parrots: Exotic Animals in Eighteenth-Century Paris (Animals, History, Culture)

Routledge - Francois Boucher and the Art of Collecting

Fjallraven Brenner Pro Padded Jacket W Sport Jacket - Dark Olive, M

The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History