144THE END OF THE DAYDREAMBerger’s “day-dream” provides a model that ultimately capitalizes on
the viewer’s affirmation, typical of classical painting. Here, in opposition
to the practice of liberty that began to pervade other representational
genres, the sovereignty of the viewer remains unchallenged and undis-
turbed in its knowledge-forming agency: language is transparently em-
bedded in representational realism. Accordingly, animals appear quelled,
remote, and immersed in a deep nature from which humans have been
long excluded.^28
SEEING DOUBLE: THIS IS NOT AN OWLOver a career spanning thirty years, Roni Horn has produced drawings,
sculptures, and installations, but it is her photographic work that has
FIGURE 4.1 “Hunt with a Kodak” and “There Are No Game Laws for Those Who
Hunt with a Kodak.” Kodak camera advertisements, 1905. Image in public domain.