The Breathless Zoo : : Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing / / Rachel Poliquin.
From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures. But why would anyone want to preserve an animal, and what is this animal-thing now? Rach...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 |
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Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2012 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Animalibus: Of Animals and Cultures ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 31 color/5 b&w illustrations |
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Summary: | From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures. But why would anyone want to preserve an animal, and what is this animal-thing now? Rachel Poliquin suggests that taxidermy is entwined with the enduring human longing to find meaning with and within the natural world. Her study draws out the longings at the heart of taxidermy-the longing for wonder, beauty, spectacle, order, narrative, allegory, and remembrance. In so doing, The Breathless Zoo explores the animal spectacles desired by particular communities, human assumptions of superiority, the yearnings for hidden truths within animal form, and the loneliness and longing that haunt our strange human existence, being both within and apart from nature. |
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Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9780271059617 9783110745269 |
DOI: | 10.1515/9780271059617?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Rachel Poliquin. |