Animals, Plants and Afterimages

Animals, Plants and Afterimages

The Art and Science of Representing Extinction

Chare, Nicholas; Bienvenue, Valerie

Berghahn Books

03/2022

460

Dura

Inglês

9781800734258

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgements

List of illustrations, Figures and Tables



Introduction: Representing Extinction: Art, Science and Afterimages

Valerie 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 'O'o 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

Valerie 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

Valerie Bienvenue and Nicholas Chare



Contributors

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Media Studies, Environmental Studies (General), Cultural Studies (General)