8.2 /10 1 Votes
4.1/5 Barnes & Noble Language English Pages 96 pp Originally published 1994 Illustrator Heather Busch Publisher Weidenfeld & Nicolson | 4.1/5 Goodreads Country New Zealand Publication date 1994 ISBN 0-297-83351-0 Genre Comedy OCLC 31376281 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Similar Dancing with cats, Famous Painted Cats, Everything He Hasn't Told You, Versability: The Poetry Game, Dancing with Cats B and W Jo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Why Paint Cats is a comedy book written by New Zealand author Burton Silver and illustrator Heather Busch. It is one of three cat art books, including Why Cats Paint and Dancing with Cats.
Contents
Synopsis
Why Paint Cats describes the practice of "cat painting", the decorating of cats with paint.
Reception
Critical reception for the book has been mixed to positive, with the SF site calling it "luscious, funny, and really, truly amazing". Publishers Weekly wrote that the book was "amusing as a novelty item" and that it was "so weird that it's sort of irresistible." The Hamilton Spectator stated that the book's contents were "spectacular". The Los Angeles Times wrote that Silver's writing was "tongue-in-cheek scholarly, complete with footnotes and a bibliography".
Controversy
Why Paint Cats has been met with some controversy since its release from those who considered the concept of the book to be unethical and encourages animal cruelty. Defenders of the book have opined that the text was a spoof and that the cats may not have been painted and the images were instead edited with a photo editing program.