ABSTRACT
Despite a long history of continuing debate over the nature of human-animal relationships and the ethical and philosophical dimensions of the issue, it is only in recent decades that the “animal question” has become more widely accepted as an important and serious matter in terms of scholarly study. This historical refusal to see animals as worthy subject matter in disciplines within the humanities, law, and sciences extended to the visual arts, where for many centuries animals were relegated to a lowly position within the hierarchy of important subject matter for artists.
