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Franz Marc As An Ethologist, Jean Carey
Franz Marc As An Ethologist, Jean Carey
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
Keywords: Animalisierung, Einfühlung, Ethology,
Expressionism, Painting, German Modernism
In this study I deploy the perspective of ethology to examine Franz Marc's paintings of animals. To perceive animals ethologically means acknowledging that animals feel, think, experience, and imagine the world. Ethology has come to include interpretive pursuits as well as traditional field studies, and as I show, Marc's practice encompassed both aspects of this evolving discipline. To establish the presence of ethology in the humanities I give a "case study" of what I call "retroactive ethology" in the work of J.M. Coetzee. I present an account of Marc's deep …