I then moved on to look at ANTHROPOMORPHISM within art as a different way to onvolve animals in contemporary art.
Beth Cavener Stichter is one of my favourite sculptors, she uses no animal part within her sculpting, however her work is still shocking, yet beautiful, and highly delicate and detailed.
She works with anthropomorphism, a form of personification, a mixture of human and animal. She makes animals with human expressions and sometimes human genetalia. This gives us a sense of empathy with the animals when they are depicted in pain, as they are showed withi feelings we can see and therfore imagine and feel.
Also, i feel by using human genetalia on the animals, it brings an uncomfortable feeling with thoughts of hybrids and the inter species breeding.
Its a clever way to shock i feel, without using animals.
