Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aesthetics - Tapa blanda

The fact that some domestic cats are able to make marks with paint has always been explained by biologists as instinctive territorial marking behaviour. Now, this book presents a theory based on recent evidence that supports the view that some cat's marks are aesthetically motivated.

Heather Busch is a recognised authority on the photography and curation of cat art and is credited with opening the world's first gallery devoted exclusively to the display of cat painting. This is Heather Busch's first photographic book, but as a well-known ew Zealand painter and sculptor, she has had several books of original work published, including Kokigami and Within and Beyond Burton Silver is a New Zealand based writer and art critic who has been instrumental in organising a number of important solo exhibitions of cat painting, including Smokey at the On Top Gallery in New York. Burton Silver is no stranger to unusual art forms and has written books on subjects as diverse as the aesthetics of ornithological dejecta and contemporary erotic Japanese paper sculpture.