... elephant painting animal art Roger Caillois mimesis haptic ...

... This chapter critically examines efforts to rehabilitate endangered Asian draft elephants as artists painting self-portraits for sale. The author frames the extension of selfhood to animals as a self-evident gesture of liberation as a “humane-itarian intervention” that combines the rhetorical...

... three rhyming couplets in Tan Swie Hian's elegant calligraphy, while the mural represents the journeys of Singapore's Chinese immigrants. The portal at Tembusu College (of the National University of Singapore) sports two elephants, painted by students, carrying concerns for endangered wildlife species...