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THE BREATHLESS ZOO Nigel Rothfels and Garry Marvin GENERAL EDITORS ADVISORY BOARD: Steve Baker University of Central Lancashire Susan McHugh University of New England Jules Pretty University of Essex Alan Rauch University of North Carolina at Charlotte Books in the Animalibus series share a fascination with the status and the role of animals in human life. Crossing the humanities and the social sciences to include work in history, anthropology, social and cultural geography, environmental studies, and literary and art criticism, these books ask what thinking about nonhuman animals can teach us about human cultures, about what it means to be human, and about how that meaning might shift across times and places. THE TAXIDERMY AND THE CULTURES Rachel BREATHLESS ZOO OF LONGING Poliquin THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS UNIVERSITY PARK, PENNSYLVANIA Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Poliquin, Rachel, 1975– The breathless zoo : taxidermy and the cultures of longing / Rachel Poliquin. p. cm. — (Animalibus : of animals and cultures) Summary: “A cultural and poetic analysis of the art and science of taxidermy, from sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art”—Provided by publisher. Includes bibliographical references and index. 978-0-271-05372-1 ISBN (cloth : acid-free paper) 1. Taxidermy—History. 2. Taxidermy—Social aspects. 3. Taxidermy—Psychological aspects. 4. Human-animal relationships. 5. Desire—Social aspects. 6. Animals in art. 7. Animals in literature. I. Title. 63. 65 2012 QL P 590.75’2—dc23 2011045700 Copyright © 2012 The Pennsylvania State University All rights reserved Printed in Singapore by Tien Wah Press, Ltd. Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, PA 16802-1003 The Pennsylvania State University Press is a member of the Association of American University Presses. It is the policy of The Pennsylvania State University Press to use acid-free paper. Publications on uncoated stock satisfy the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences— Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Material, 39.48–1992. ANSI Z Designed by Regina Starace CONTENTS List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction 1 WONDER 2 BEAUTY 3 SPECTACLE 4 ORDER 5 NARRATIVE 6 ALLEGORY 7 REMEMBRANCE Notes Illustrations Index ILLUSTRATIONS 1Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson, Somerset, from Nanoq: Flat Out and Bluesome 2Bryndís Snæbjörnsdóttir and Mark Wilson, Nanoq: Flat Out and Bluesome 3The museum of Ferrante Imperato 4Dehydrated flying fish from the nineteenth century 5An assortment of wondrous bits and pieces from Nehemiah Grew’s Musæum Regalis Societatis 6A kitten with eight legs and two tails preserved by Walter Potter at the end of the nineteenth century 7Nineteenth-century hummingbird case on display in the Birds Gallery of the Natural History Museum, London 8Bonnier de La Mosson’s Second Cabinet of Natural History 9Two ocelots in the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin 10John Everett Millais, The Ornithologist 11Binding or “setting up” a peregrine falcon 12Henri Rousseau, Le lion, ayant faim, se jette sur l’antilope, 1898/1905 13The positioning of a flat “body board” and rods for setting up a lion skin 14Jules Verreaux, Arab Courier Attacked by Lions 15African lion diorama in Akeley Hall of African Mammals, American Museum of Natural History, New York 16The Tsavo lions at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago 17The zebras in Gallery 4 at the Natural History Museum in Tring, England 18Two zebras at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago 19Flat storage of study skins in the Birds Division at the Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C. 20Daniëlle van Ark, Untitled (Zebras 01) 21William Adolph Baillie-Grohman with his favorite wapiti head 22Angela Singer, Thorn 23The hunting hall in the Agricultural Museum in Vajdahunyad Castle, Budapest 24View of front desk area in the Meeker Hotel, Meeker, Colorado, in 1903 25An inside view of the Contemporary Zoological Conservatory in Toronto 26Hermann Ploucquet, The Ermines’ Tea Party 27Walter Potter, The Rabbits’ Village School 28Squirrel cowboy at the Cress Funeral Home in Madison, Wisconsin 29Idiots, Ophelia 30Life and Nice, from Iris Schieferstein’s Life Can Be So Nice 31The stuffed parrot that allegedly perched on Gustave Flaubert’s desk as he wrote “Un coeur simple” 32A playful look at pet preservation 33The dogs of Gallery 6 in the Natural History Museum, London 34Tinkebell, Popple 35Martin d’Orgeval, Touched by Fire
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