The matter and meaning of museum taxidermy
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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.
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Poliquin, R. (2015). The matter and meaning of museum taxidermy. Museum & Society, 6(2), 123–134. Retrieved from https://journals.le.ac.uk/index.php/mas/article/view/118
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