From Stubbs to Damien Hirst , animals have always been portrayed and displayed by artists to provide as much of a comment on human society as upon the natural world.
Laura Cumming explores the relationship between art and animals in contemporary art and discusses a new Channel 4 television series, The
Truth about Art, in which Waldemar
Januszczak challenges the history of art established by Kenneth Clark 's
Civilisation. And Bill Buford of the New Yorker delivers his regular letter on cultural life in America.
Producer Robyn Read