http://www.getty.edu/oudry/default/tags// A discussion about animals in art and the imagination en Oudry Blog Team Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:34:00 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://www.getty.edu/oudry/default/2007/08/09/a_sensational_and_sentimental_rhino_part_1.html <div align="left">In the 1740s Clara the rhinoceros sailed from India into the Age of Reason. She arrived in a political world that would soon declare that &quot;all men are created equal&quot; without abolishing slavery or stepping back from the colonizing of Asia, Africa, and the Americas. The West was redefining what it meant to be a human, an individual, and a self in this period. But what, then, did it mean to be an animal in Enlightenment Europe? The images and objects collected in <a target="_blank" href="/art/exhibitions/oudry/">Oudry's Painted Menagerie</a> tell part of that story...</div><p><a href="http://www.getty.edu/oudry/default/2007/08/09/a_sensational_and_sentimental_rhino_part_1.html">Read more...</a></p> http://www.getty.edu/oudry/default/2007/08/09/a_sensational_and_sentimental_rhino_part_1.html#comments http://www.getty.edu/oudry/default/2007/08/09/a_sensational_and_sentimental_rhino_part_1.html Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:14:00 GMT