SEHEN UND GESEHEN WERDEN. MENSCH-TIER-VERHÄLTNIS ZWISCHEN WIRKLICHKEIT UND ILLUSION IN DAVID WIESNERS BILDERBUCH „FLOTSAM“
SEEING AND BEING SEEN. HUMAN-ANIMAL RELATIONS BETWEEN REALITY AND ILLUSION IN DAVID WIESNER’S PICTURE BOOK “FLOTSAM”
Author(s): Qingyu CAISubject(s): Photography, Visual Arts, Aesthetics, Theory of Literature, American Literature
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: David Wiesner; Flotsam; seeing; human-animal relations; the posthuman;
Summary/Abstract: The picture book Flotsam depicts a boy who meets animals at a beach and finds an analog camera as flotsam, with which he discovers a peculiar underwater world. In the book, human-animal- relations are reflected dialectically in the context of visual perception with art, namely photography and fine arts, as well as literature, being used as the medium of reflection.
Journal: Studia Germanica Posnaniensia
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 42
- Page Range: 209-220
- Page Count: 12
- Language: German