{"product_id":"like-a-little-dog-9780520383579","title":"Like a Little Dog","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA bold, compelling, and original study of nonhuman life in Warhol.    Like a Little Dog examines a dimension of Andy Warhol that has never received critical attention: his lifelong personal and artistic interest in nonhuman life. With this book, Anthony E. Grudin offers an engaging new overview of the iconic artist through the lens of animal and plant studies, showing that Warhol and his collaborators wondered over the same questions that absorb these fields: What qualities do humans share with other life forms? How might the vulnerability of life and the unpredictability of desire link them together? Why has the human\/animal\/plant hierarchy been so rigidly, violently enforced? Nonhuman life impassioned every area of Warhol's practice, beginning with his juvenilia and an unusually close creative collaboration with his mother, Julia Warhola. The pair codeveloped a transgressive animality that permeated Warhol's prolific career, from his commercial illustration and erotica to his writing\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e A Note on Terminology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Warhol's Nonhuman Life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. \"Like a Little Dog\"\u003cbr\u003e 2. Factory Badlands\u003cbr\u003e 3. Machines, Animal and Vegetal\u003cbr\u003e 4. \"Philosophy of the Fragile\"\u003cbr\u003e 5. Queer Beauty and Extinction\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: The Python Priestess\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Selected Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e List of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402954613079,"sku":"9780520383579","price":32.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520383579.jpg?v=1730481955","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/like-a-little-dog-9780520383579","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}