October 20, 2006
'Lion and Zookeeper': a Study in Disavowal
Most Americans enjoy eating meat, but at the same time we become uncomfortable when contemplating images of the slaughterhouse. In "Lion and Zookeeper," a Saturday Evening Post cover, Rockwell captures this form of disavowal. Rockwell describes the illustration better than I can: "A zoo guard seated in front of a lion cage eating a sandwich stuffed, overflowing, with red meat while the lion in the cage gazed hungrily, ravenously, and at the same time a little sadly, at the sandwich over his
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