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"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 em...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bienvenue, Valérie (Editor ), Chare, Nicholas (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn, 2022.
Temas:
Extinct animals in art.
Extinct plants in art.
Extinct animals > Exhibitions.
Extinct plants > Exhibitions.
Art and biology.
Museum techniques > Moral and ethical aspects.
Animaux disparus > Expositions.
Plantes disparues > Expositions.
Art et biologie.
Muséologie > Aspect moral.
Animaux disparus dans l'art.
Plantes disparues dans l'art.
NATURE / Endangered Species.
Extinct plants in art
Art and biology
Extinct animals in art
Social Science
Media Studies
Science
Environmental Science
Nature
Endangered Species
Exhibition catalogs
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. Representing extinction : art, science and afterimages / Valérie Bienvenue and Nicholas Chare
  • The dinosaur as cultural symbol and totem : W.J.T. Mitchell in conversation / W.J.T. Mitchell
  • Visualizing extinction : Harriet Ritvo in conversation / Harriet Ritvo
  • 'Putting nature back together again' : Stuart Pimm in conversation / Stuart Pimm
  • The Beothuk, the great auk and the Newfoundland wolf : animal and human genocide in Canada's easternmost province / Nicholas Chare
  • Cultural memory of recent extinctions : a Chinese perspective / Samuel T. Turvey
  • Grief, extinction and bilhaa (abalone) / hagwil hayetsk (Charles R. Menzies)
  • Sparrows with teeth and claws? Reconstructing the cretaceous enantiornithes (aves : ornithothoraces) / Jingmai O'Connor
  • Rare birds and rare books : the species as work of art / Gordon M. Sayre
  • The virtual realities of species revivalism : restoring the Kaua'i 'Ō'ō Bird in jakob kudsk steensen's re-animated / Sarah Bezan
  • Insects, spiders, snails and empathy : representing invertebrate extinctions in natural history museums / Pedro Cardoso
  • Reconstructing lycopsids lost to the deep past / Jeffrey P. Benca
  • Ellis Rowan, extinction and the politics of flower painting / Jeanette Hoorn
  • Towards extinction : mapping the vulnerable, threatened and critically endangered plant in 'moments of friction' / Dawn Sanders
  • Sweetness, power, yeasts and entomo-terroir / Robert R. Dunn, Monica C. Sanchez and Matthew Morse Booker
  • Animal extinction, film and the death drive / Barbara Creed
  • Tasmanian tiger : precious little remains / David Maynard
  • From the general to the particular : piecing together the life and afterlife of A544, Louis XVI's Quagga / Valérie Bienvenue
  • Three variations on the theme of extinction : looking anew at the art and science of Mark Dion / Anne-Sophie Miclo
  • The exhibition of extinct species : a critique / Norman MacLeod
  • Exhibiting extinction : thylacines in museum display / Kathryn Medlock
  • Afterword. After extinction / Valérie Bienvenue and Nicholas Chare.

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