Taxidermy Books
Octopus Publishing Group Crap Taxidermy
Book SynopsisYou won't know whether to laugh or cry at these spectacularly bad attempts at taxidermy, brought to you courtesy of the hit website crappytaxidermy.com. The site's plethora of bad taxidermy examples - including a squirrel riding a rattlesnake like a cowboy, and various anatomically imaginative renderings of all creatures great and small - have proved hugely popular. Here the very best of the worst stuffed animals are brought together in one full-colour volume; with additional features including a DIY 'Stuff Your Own Mouse' lesson, and an author's introduction to the craze for getting stuffed.
£9.25
Columbia University Press Speculative Taxidermy
Book SynopsisGiovanni Aloi maps the discourses and practices that have enabled the emergence of taxidermy in contemporary art. Speculative Taxidermy contextualizes the resilient presence of animal skin, bones, and feathers in gallery spaces, films, and fashion as a productive opportunity to rethink ethical and political stances in human-animal relationships.Trade ReviewThe first volume to focus on animals in a media-based subset of contemporary art, Speculative Taxidermy offers a lucid and compelling account of why animals have become serious subjects in art, and with what consequences for the history of art and biological science. There is no greater authority on the subject than Aloi. -- Susan McHugh, University of New England Speculative Taxidermy makes a fascinating contribution to the nonhuman turn and invites us to find new ways to envisage the relationships between human and nonhuman animals. It will be a significant text for ethical and political debates in animal studies and the environmental humanities. -- Hannah Stark, University of TasmaniaTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: The Carnal Immanence of Political Realism—Realism, Materiality, and AgencyIntroduction: New Taxidermy Surfaces in Contemporary Art1. Reconfiguring Animal Skins: Fragmented Histories and Manipulated Surfaces2. A Natural History Panopticon: Power, Representation, and Animal Objectification3. Dioramas: Power, Realism, and Decorum4. The End of the Daydream: Taxidermy and Photography5. Following Materiality: From Medium to Surface—Medium Specificity and Animal Visibility in the Modern Age6. The Allure of the Veneer: Aesthetics of Speculative Taxidermy7. This Is Not a Horse: Biopower and Animal Skins in the AnthropoceneCoda: Toward New Mythologies—the Ritual, the Sacrifice, the InterconnectednessAppendix: Some Notes Toward a Manifesto for Artists Working with and About Taxidermy Animals, by Mark Dion and Robert MarburyNotesBibliographyIndex
£83.60
