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Art by Animals

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Watch apes and elephants master human art. This film was created alongside the 2012 exhibition Art by Animals at the Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL

Part of Life Art Library at MIF 2019: Animals of Manchester; Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 July 2019.

Artist / Author Jack Ashby
Digital Ref EF5304
Date 2012
Type Digital File

Keywords

animal captivity children citizenship city companionship freedom human humanz intergenerational interspecies project Live Art Development Agency Manchester International Festival Sibylle Peter The Whitworth Theatre of Research zoo

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