Animals, Plants and Afterimages : : The Art and Science of Representing Extinction.

• Author: Bienvenue, Valérie.
• TeilnehmendeR: Chare, Nicholas.
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Berghahn Books, Incorporated,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (460 pages)

The sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction is one of the most pervasive issues of our time. Animals, Plants and Afterimages brings together leading scholars in the humanities and life sciences to explore how extinct species are represented in art and visual culture, with a special emphasis on museums. Engaging with celebrated cases of vanished species such as the quagga and the thylacine as well as less well-known examples of animals and plants, these essays explore how representations of recent and ancient extinctions help advance scientific understanding and speak to contemporary ecological and environmental concerns.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction. Representing Extinction: Art, Science and Afterimages -- Part I. Dialogues about Extinction -- Chapter 1. The Dinosaur as Cultural Symbol and Totem: W. J. T. Mitchell in Conversation -- Chapter 2. Visualizing Extinction: Harriet Ritvo in Conversation -- Chapter 3. ‘Putting Nature Back Together Again’: Stuart Pimm in Conversation -- Part II. Indigenous Peoples and Extinction -- Chapter 4. The Beothuk, the Great Auk and the Newfoundland Wolf: Animal and Human Genocide in Canada’s Easternmost Province -- Chapter 5. Cultural Memory of Recent Extinctions: A Chinese Perspective -- Chapter 6. Grief, Extinction and Bilhaa (Abalone) -- Part III. Representing Avian and Insect Extinctions -- Chapter 7. Sparrows with Teeth and Claws? Reconstructing the Cretaceous Enantiornithes (Aves: Ornithothoraces) -- Chapter 8. Rare Birds and Rare Books: The Species as Work of Art -- Chapter 9. Th e Species Revivalist Sublime: Encountering the Kaua‘i ‘Ō‘ō Bird in Jakob Kudsk Steensen’s Re-Animated -- Chapter 10. Insects, Spiders, Snails and Empathy: Representing Invertebrate Extinctions in Natural History Museums -- Part IV. Representing Extinct Plants and Fungi -- Chapter 11. Reconstructing Lycopsids Lost to the Deep Past -- Chapter 12. Ellis Rowan, Extinction and the Politics of Flower Painting -- Chapter 13. Towards Extinction: Mapping the Vulnerable, Th reatened and Critically Endangered Plant in ‘Moments of Friction’ -- Chapter 14. Sweetness, Power, Yeasts and Entomo-terroir -- Part V. Representing Extinct Mammals -- Chapter 15. Animal Extinction, Film and the Death Drive -- Chapter 16. Tasmanian Tiger: Precious Little Remains -- Chapter 17. From the General to the Particular: Piecing Together the Life and Afterlife of A544, Louis XVI’s Quagga -- Part VI. Exhibiting Extinction -- Chapter 18. Three Variations on the Theme of Extinction: Looking Anew at the Art and Science of Mark Dion -- Chapter 19. The Exhibition of Extinct Species: A Critique -- Chapter 20. Exhibiting Extinction: Thylacines in Museum Display -- Afterword. After Extinction -- Notes on Contributors -- Index