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Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 106
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The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg, Including the Story of Reynard the Fox
Author: The Comical Creatures from Wurtemberg, Including
Author: The Spectator
Author: The Athenaeum
Author: The Breathless Zoo
Author: Rachel PoliquinPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027105963X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
From sixteenth-century cabinets of wonders to contemporary animal art, The Breathless Zoo: Taxidermy and the Cultures of Longing examines the cultural and poetic history of preserving animals in lively postures. But why would anyone want to preserve an animal, and what is this animal-thing now? Rachel Poliquin suggests that taxidermy is entwined with the enduring human longing to find meaning with and within the natural world. Her study draws out the longings at the heart of taxidermy—the longing for wonder, beauty, spectacle, order, narrative, allegory, and remembrance. In so doing, The Breathless Zoo explores the animal spectacles desired by particular communities, human assumptions of superiority, the yearnings for hidden truths within animal form, and the loneliness and longing that haunt our strange human existence, being both within and apart from nature.
The Examiner
Author: The Miseries of Human Life
Author: James BeresfordPublisher:
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Category : English wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Notabilities in France and England
Author: Philarète ChaslesPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The New Rome
Author: Theodore PoeschePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
Catalogue of the ... Library of Books in All Languages ... Formed ...
Author: George SmithPublisher:
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Category : Private libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description