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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"taxidermy"”.
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Taxidermy of Thought
<p>Sculpture is how I bring to life the dark corners of my mind. There have always been images of creatures, geology, and botanical life swirling around my head. Images that often include spires of exoskeleton, creeping tendrils searching for sustenance, or something that moves in an unnatural way. …
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Re-Presenting Taxidermy: Contemporary Art Interventions in Natural History Museums
… skeletons. Animal displays often made use of taxidermy. Attempts at a more realistic display of animals in their natural habitat took the form of the diorama. While it was popular at the time, it is perceived as problematic today in its reference to the heroic hunter who collected 'big game' …
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Strict Fidelity to Nature: Scientific Taxidermy, U.S. Natural History Museums, and Craft Consensus, 1880s to 1930s
As taxidermy increased in prominence in American natural history museums in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the idea of trying to replicate nature through mounts and displays became increasingly central. Crude practices of overstuffing skins gave way to a focus on the artistic …
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An Inert State: Tracing a double-defiance of death via photographic poiesis
… between the photograph and the museum taxidermy specimen as a way of revealing a double-defiance against the Freudian concept of the death-drive. From this, a new concept photo-dermy was established and explored via the production of five museum-based practice-projects. Examination of …
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Bramble and Knife
… this reflection while studying the art of taxidermy; I saw my own struggle with my body in the preservation of the animal body. During my summers at NMU, I was also funded through grants to travel through Scandinavia, as well as various parts of the Midwest, and these travels developed into …
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Individual risk and reward in the wild. A study on blue tits
… threat levels (using woodpecker and sparrowhawk taxidermy mounts), the research further tested whether risk-prone individuals are less flexible in their behaviour. Although the population demonstrated behavioural plasticity by a stronger response towards the high-level threat (sparrowhawk), …
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Perceived Predation Risk And The Responses Of Adult And Nestling Tree Swallows (tachycineta Bicolor)
… to models of four potential predators, including taxidermy mounts of a raccoon (Procyon lotor) and an eastern chipmunk (Tamias striatus), a study skin of an American Kestrel (Falco sparverius), and a rubber model of a black rat snake (Pantherophis obsoletus), as well as a study skin of an American …
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Vocal responses of adult Eastern Bluebirds (Sialia sialis) to potential nest predators and the behavioral responses of nestlings
… to four potential nest predators, including taxidermy mounts of a raccoon <em>(Procyon lotor)</em> and an eastern chipmunk <em>(Tamias striatus)</em>, a study skin of an American Kestrel <em>(Falco sparverius)</em>, and a rubber model of a black rat snake <em>(Pantherophis obsoletus)</em>. My …
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Serpents of Empire: Moral Encounters in Natural History c.1780-1870
… books and papers, newspapers and periodicals, taxidermy and cartoons, travel accounts, and government archives from Britain and India, this study provides a connected account of how snakes were collected, transported, described, experimented with, and used for a variety of ends. Following an …
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An anthropological investigation into the facial preservation of ceremonial tsantsa and commercial shrunken heads
… had access to corpses and appropriate medical or taxidermy provisions, produced them for trade. These heads were made in abundance and do not present the same historical value.<br/><br/>A total of 65 shrunken heads were examined (20 from the Smithsonian Institute, USA, 44 from the Science Museum, …
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The Persistent Shock of the Old: Making the case for the responsive development of artwork deploying historical museological display techniques.
My sculpture work and thesis investigate the potential of historical museological practices—particularly Victorian and Edwardian display technologies—in contemporary art-making and sculptural practice. I ask three central questions: how can the collection and display of natural history materials be …