Displaying death and animating life
Subtitle: human-animal relations in art, science, and everyday life
By: Jane C. Desmond
Series: Animal lives; Animal lives (University of Chicago. Press)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 333
ISBN-13: 9780226144054; 9780226144061
Subjects: Human-animal relationships in art; Human-animal relationships; Human-animal relationships in mass media
Notes: Inculdes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. Introduction: Passionate encounters with animals in everyday life, beyond the mainstream; title: Part One. Theaters of the dead : humans and nonhuman animals. 2. Postmortem exhibitions : taxidermied animals and plastinated corpses in the theaters of the dead ; 3. Inside "animal" and outside "culture" : the limits to "sameness" and rhetorics of salvation in von Hagens's Animal Inside Out Body Worlds exhibition; title: Part Two. Mourning and the unmourned. 4. On the margins of death : pet cemeteries and mourning practices ; 5. Grievable lives and new kinships : pet cemeteries and the changing geographies of death ; 6. Animal deaths and the written record of history : the inflammatory politics of pet obituaries in newspapers ; 7. Requiem for roadkill : death, denial, and mourning on America's roads; title: Part Three. Animating life : cognition, expressivity, and the art market. 8. "Art" by animals. Part 1, The transnational market for art by (nonprimate) animals ; 9. "Art" by animals. Part 2, When the artist is an ape, popular and scientific discourse and paintings by primates; title: 10. Conclusion: "Every bird a 'Blueboy' " and why it matters for "animal studies"; title: Notes; title: Index.