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This edited volume, written by historians of art and visual culture who are working with the field of animal studies, seeks to understand how our ways of positioning (and ex-positioning) animals have separated us from the other-than-human animals that are an integral part of our interconnected world.
List of contents
Part 1 In Books, Prints, and Photographs 1. Anxious Shores: Early Modern Illustrations of Marine Animals from the Magellan Strait and the Chilean Coast 2. Capturing Animal Life in
Brehms Thierleben 3. Turning the World Inside Out: Exhibiting Animals in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Broadsheets 4. Talking Like the Birds: Animal Speech and Embodied Imitation in Early Colonial Mexico 5. Posing Pony: Considering Horses, Children, and Display in Rural Lakota Photographs
Part 2 In Palaces, Churches, and Ceremonial Spaces 6. Visceral
Castor: Animal Presence in Indigenous Beaver-Pelt Coats and French Tricorn Hats 7. A World Beyond the Mines: Birds in the Flower Paintings of San Martín de Tours in Potosí, Bolivia 8. The War Stories of Sspitaikoan 9. Coexisting Species and Imperial Networks: Displaying African and Asian Animals in the New Kingdom of Granada 10. Winged Beasts for Charles III
Part 3 In Studios, Theatres, and Museums 11. The Corpse at the Door: Edwin Landseer and Albert the Lion 12. Bloodhounds, Race, and Spectacle: From Nineteenth-Century Melodrama to Breed Specific Legislation 13. Riding into the Afterlife: A Close Reading of Honoré Fragonard's
Écorché of a Horse and his Rider (1766-1771) 14. Fragile Fragments: Reflections on Victorian Beetle Art in a Time of Climate Crisis
Part 4 In Parks, Fairs, and Zoos 15. "Predecessors of the living:" Displaying Extinct Animals at the Crystal Palace in Sydenham 16. Twice-Stilled Animals: Control and Vulnerability in Images of Taxidermy in the United States 17. "From ocean's depths and inland streams": Fish on Display at the 1893 Columbian Exposition 18. How a Polar Bear Lived in Canada's First National Park
About the author
M. Elizabeth Boone is professor in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Alberta.
Lianne McTavish is professor in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Alberta.
Summary
This edited volume, written by historians of art and visual culture who are working with the field of animal studies, seeks to understand how our ways of positioning (and ex-positioning) animals have separated us from the other-than-human animals that are an integral part of our interconnected world.
