Dogs in Art: A Canine History of Art

While I have read several books about the history of dogs, like Sorosiak and Uribe's A World of Dogs: A Celebration of Fascinating Facts and Amazing Real-Life Stories for Dog Lovers, Evans and Heaton's Atlas of Dogs, and Hamilton's Daring Dogs: 30 True Tales of Heroic Hounds, and Albee's Dog Days, but I've never seen such a complete discussion of dogs in art!

While the subjects of the art might be dogs, the subject of this book is really art history. There is a nice timeline of art at the beginning of the book, and there are chapters on painting, photography, street art, and sculpture.

We are taken through a virtual museum by a young woman and her snarky cat, who likes to make comments about the dogs in the artwork. The Young woman adds commentary about individual works as well as the progression of art in general. There is basic information listed for the various pieces, including the artist, origin, movement, and sometimes the location (in the cases of street art). This ends with an overview about the evolution of dogs in art, illustrated by a dalmatian surrounded by the different time periods and how the art evolved.