Animals, plants and afterimages : the art and science of representing extinction /: the art and science of representing extinction. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Valérie Bienvenue, Nicholas Chare.
• Editors: Bienvenue, Valérie; Chare, Nicholas
• Contents: Acknowledgements; List of illustrations, Figures and Tables <a href="/downloads/intros/BienvenueAnimals_intro.pdf" target="_blank">Introduction: Representing Extinction: Art, Science and Afterimages; Valérie Bienvenue and Nicholas Chare Part I: Dialogues about Extinction Chapter 1. The Dinosaur as Cultural Symbol and Totem: W.J.T. Mitchell in Conversation; W.J.T. Mitchell Chapter 2. Visualizing Extinction: Harriet Ritvo in Conversation; Harriet Ritvo Chapter 3. ‘Putting Nature Back Together Again’: Stuart Pimm in Conversation; Stuart Pimm 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; Nicholas Chare Chapter 5. Cultural Memory of Recent Extinctions: A Chinese Perspective; Samuel T. Turvey Chapter 6. Grief, Extinction, and Bilhaa (Abalone); hagwil hayetsk (Charles R. Menzies) Part III: Representing Avian and Insect Extinctions Chapter 7. Sparrows with teeth and claws? Reconstructing the Cretaceous Enantiornithes (Aves: Ornithothoraces); Jingmai O’Connor Chapter 8. Rare Birds and Rare Books The Species as Work of Art; Gordon M. Sayre Chapter 9. The Virtual Realities of Species Revivalism: Restoring the Kaua‘i ‘Ō‘ō Bird in Jakob Kudsk Steensen's Re-Animated; Sarah Bezan Chapter 10. Insects, Spiders, Snails and Empathy: Representing Invertebrate Extinctions in Natural History Museums; Pedro Cardoso Part IV: Representing Extinct Plants and Fungi Chapter 11. Reconstructing Lycopsids Lost to the Deep Past; Jeffrey P. Benca Chapter 12. Ellis Rowan, Extinction and the Politics of Flower Painting; Jeanette Hoorn Chapter 13. Towards Extinction: Mapping the Vulnerable, Threatened and Critically Endangered Plant in ‘Moments of Friction’; Dawn Sanders Chapter 14. Sweetness, Power, Yeasts, and Entomo-terroir; Robert R. Dunn, Monica C. Sanchez and Matthew Morse Booker Part V: Representing Extinct Mammals Chapter 15. Animal Extinction, Film and the Death Drive; Barbara Creed Chapter 16. Tasmanian Tiger: Precious Little Remains; David Maynard Chapter 17. From the General to the Particular: Piecing together the Life and Afterlife of A544, Louis XVI’s Quagga; Valérie Bienvenue Part VI: Exhibiting Extinction Chapter 18. Three Variations on the Theme of Extinction: Looking Anew at the Art and Science of Mark Dion; Anne-Sophie Miclo Chapter 19. The Exhibition of Extinct Species: A Critique; Norman MacLeod Chapter 20. Exhibiting Extinction: Thylacines in Museum Display; Kathryn Medlock Afterword : After Extinction; Valérie Bienvenue and Nicholas Chare Contributors; Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 704.943; Extinct animals in art; Extinct plants in art
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800734265
• Related ISBNs: 9781800734258
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