Charlotte Cory's photographic collages, skillfully reworking Victorian photographic visiting cards, resemble intriguing short stories, which invite viewers to speculate on the events behind the picture. By creating highly subversive images of human bodies with animal heads, she creates a vision of the nineteenth century, an exciting post-Darwinian alternative universe in which animals are clearly in charge. At first you laugh, but then you find yourself thinking…. Collecting Cartes-de-visite was a craze in Victorian times, called 'cartomania'. It was the Facebook of its time. Millions were produced and are now mostly worthless. Cory combines these poignant images with portraits taken of stuffed animals from museums and her own collection. By recycling these dispossessed images and long-dead creatures, she gives them all a new lease of life. Brighter, more colourful, more interesting and more disturbing than before. Featured essays include an introduction to the world of the Visitorians by distinguished author and historian AN Wilson. The curator of the Royal Photograph Collection, Sophie Gordon, discusses Cory's reinterpretation of Victorian photographic ideas and innovations for our age. You Animal, You! is an in-depth look at the world of this unusual artist that will delight her fans and interest newcomers to her work in equal measure.
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'intriguing' --The Observer
"STEP INTO THE extraordinary world of artist, photographer, playwright, designer, historian and novelist Charlotte Cory. 'Her work in all these disciplines', writes Brontë expert Jane Sellars, one of the contributors to this delicious new book, 'is characterised by an originality of ideas and a daring and mischievous wit'. Certainly, there's nothing quite like the Visitorians , Miss Cory's humorous and touching, yet often disturbing, human-animal portraits that are the subject of this book." --Country Life Magazine
"One is amused! The Queen a fan of wacky artist's stuffed animal portraits. Charlotte Cory's potty artwork, which fuses Victorian portraiture and taxidermy, is fast becoming a hit with collectors all over the world, including the Queen...dozens of the pictures have been put together for the first time in a book called You Animal, You!" --Daily Mail
"STEP INTO THE extraordinary world of artist, photographer, playwright, designer, historian and novelist Charlotte Cory. 'Her work in all these disciplines', writes Brontë expert Jane Sellars, one of the contributors to this delicious new book, 'is characterised by an originality of ideas and a daring and mischievous wit'. Certainly, there's nothing quite like the Visitorians , Miss Cory's humorous and touching, yet often disturbing, human-animal portraits that are the subject of this book." --Country Life Magazine
"One is amused! The Queen a fan of wacky artist's stuffed animal portraits. Charlotte Cory's potty artwork, which fuses Victorian portraiture and taxidermy, is fast becoming a hit with collectors all over the world, including the Queen...dozens of the pictures have been put together for the first time in a book called You Animal, You!" --Daily Mail
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