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The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing

Rachel Poliquin
4.9/5 (29222 ratings)
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Description: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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing. To get started finding The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages
271
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Publisher
Penn State University Press
Release
2014
ISBN
0271059613

The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing

Rachel Poliquin
4.4/5 (1290744 ratings)
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Description: 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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing. To get started finding The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
271
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Penn State University Press
Release
2014
ISBN
0271059613

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