Dogs have been featured in works of art in various waysfrom primary subjects to supporting characters to props. Best in Show is the most up-to-date, comprehensive survey of the dog as shown in painting, sculpture, works on paper, and photography from the end of the sixteenth century to today. This beautifully produced book features sixty works by such illustrious artists as Francis Bacon, Gustave Courbet, Salvador Dalí, Lucian Freud, Thomas Gainsborough, Edouard Manet, Andy Warhol, William Wegman, Andrew Wyeth, and many more. Four fascinating essays by distinguished scholars discuss the dog in the context of the art of the 16th through the 21st centuries; examine the purebred and how breeds have developed and changed over the years; and outline the results of scientific inquiry over the centuries regarding the nature of dogs. Best in Show brilliantly illuminates the captivating and intriguing history of the dog in artoffering myriad interpretations and irrefutable reasons for celebrating the artist’s best friend.”

Best in Show: The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today

Arts & Photography

Secord, William

Rebbert, Carolyn Rose

Bowron, Peter

Rosenblum, Robert

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Best in Show: The Dog in Art from the Renaissance to Today [Paperback] Edgar Peters Bowron (Author), Carolyn Rose Rebbert (Author), Robert Rosenblum (Author), William Secord (Author)

Bowron, Edgar Peters

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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