Simon Courtauld

Art and the raging bull

In these days of growing concern at the methods of factory farming and the welfare of the animals which are raised and killed for our consumption, it is instructive to compare the life of domestic beef cattle with that of a Spanish fighting bull.

  • Into the Arena: The World of the Spanish Bullfight

    Alexander Fiske-Harrison

    Profile, pp. 284

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