Year: 2008
Type: article
Abstract: Focusing on taxidermy in contemporary museums and art galleries, my paper explores relationships between the materiality of taxidermy and its multiple readings or narratives. I present four such narratives – descriptive, biographical, cautionary, and experiential – and examine the ways these overlapping and competing readings manipulate and transform taxidermied mounts and, conversely, how mounted creatures always embody an excess that resists full disclosure.
Source: Museum and Society
Author: Rachel Poliquin
Language: English
Subfield: Museology
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2182000888