Why Paint Cats: The Ethics of Feline Aesthetics

Tink said Fantastic coffee table book!. I bought this book several times to give as a gift. There is nothing else like it, except it's sequel :-) You just have to see the beautiful photos to believe it.. Funny and Edgy Warning: This book is not for people who take themselves (or anything else) too seriously.I love "Why Paint Cats." The photography and concepts are incredibly well executed and clever. The commentary and 'interviews' are the best part of the work, poking fun at everyone . Kendafan said Pictures and artwork are beautiful. Very disappointed in size,. I was really disappointed with the book. This was totally my fault as I did not read the description carefully. I would have never guessed that this book could come so small. I thought for the price I was getting the large coffee table size that my opthamologist's office

From Publishers Weekly While the popular and enduring Why Cats Paint (1994) profiled the creative output of house pets, highlighting tabbies and Persian long-hairs with smeary abstract canvases they ostensibly made, the authors' latest volume inverts the paradigm, and offers instead the cat-as-canvas. Perhaps the most amazing entry is a portrait of Charlie Chaplin, supposedly painted with peroxide and vegetable dye on the rear end of a ginger and white cat named Burger. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. Presented as the document of a developing art movement, t

Exhaustively researched and lavishly illustrated, this insightful and engaging book raises important ethical questions and explores the rights of pet owners to reinvent their cats in the name of art.. The authors detail all the latest trends in the movement, including the highly controversial Retromingent Expressionism, drawing conclusions that will provoke and amuse, startle, and enlighten. Following the international success of their previous collaboration of feline aesthetics, WHY CATS PAINT, Burton Silver and Heather Busch turn their scholarly attention to the cat as canvas. Why did a woman in California pay an artist $5,000 to paint her cat to look like a pig? What made a New York stockbroker spend even more than that to have the image of Charlie Chaplin painted on his cat'¬?s posterior? WHY PAINT CATS reveals that, far from being an amusement for the idle rich, this seemingly aberrant behavior is part of a new art movement that claims to promote a better understanding of the cats in our lives