List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionDaniel Harkett and Katie HornsteinRethinking the Animal in Art History: Charles Darwin, Karl Woermann, and the BowerbirdNina AmstutzPhotography Needs Animals: Materials, Processes, and the Colonial Supply Chains of Gelatine Dry PlatesRosalind HayesShooting Elephants and the Performance of Imperial PowerNiharika DinkarA Tale of Two SerpentsLaur a NüfferMourning across Species: Ivory Miniatures and Elephant DeathKatherine FeinWar Horses, Commemoration, and Mutilation:Copenhagen (1808–1836) and Marengo (ca. 1793–1831) Katie HornsteinTo Fool a Fish: Exploring Interspecies Aesthetics in Nineteenth-Century Fly-FishingEmily GephartFeline Creativity on the Eve of ModernityAmy Freund and Michael YonanThe Bird that Cuts the Airy Way: William Blake’s Avian ModernityAlysia GarrisonBovine UbiquityMaura CoughlinAgainst the Visual: Seals, Indigenous-Settler Relations, and the Material Culture of Sealing since 1697Catherine GirardMr. Crowley’s Signature: Race, Resistance, and the Queerness of American Animal PortraitureAnnie RonanMemory and Materiality: Commemorating Canine Companions in Eighteenth-Century BritainSean WeissHerd Mentality: Animal Relationality and QueerKinships in the Life and Work of Anton BraithStephanie TriplettSelected BibliographyContributorsIndexInnovative study of animal art histories in modern artAnimal Modernities challenges the traditional human-centered focus of art history and explores how modern art, visual culture, and modernity itself emerge from relationships between humans and animals. The essays in this volume reveal histories of exploitation and domination, as well as confusion and ambivalence, and occasional moments when affinities between humans and animals have been embraced, and animal agency asserted and acknowledged. The authors collectively point to the importance of thinking about animal-human relations for addressing today's ecological challenges.Animal Modernities challenges the traditional human-centered focus of art history and explores how modern art, visual culture, and modernity itself emerge from relationships between humans and animals. The essays in this volume reveal histories of exploitation and domination, as well as confusion and ambivalence, and occasional moments when affinities between humans and animals have been embraced, and animal agency asserted and acknowledged. The authors collectively point to the importance of thinking about animal–human relations for addressing today’s ecological challenges.