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Cammarata-Seale, Heather N.

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Embodied paradox: Taxidermy and contemporary art, 1990-present.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Embodied paradox: Taxidermy and contemporary art, 1990-present./
Author:	Cammarata-Seale, Heather N.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
Description:	228 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-08(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International77-08A(E).
Subject:	Art history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10095930
ISBN:	9781339600864

Embodied paradox: Taxidermy and contemporary art, 1990-present.
Cammarata-Seale, Heather N.

Embodied paradox: Taxidermy and contemporary art, 1990-present. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 228 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 77-08(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick, 2016.

This item is not available from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses.

Taxidermy---the product of preparing, stuffing, and mounting animal skin---is constructed of both animal and man-made materials. It promotes an illusion of life predicated on the reality of death. Although popular in the late nineteenth century, taxidermy fell out of scientific favor during the twentieth century. At the turn of the twenty-first century, however, the relevance of taxidermy was revived by visual artists. By peeling back the layers of taxidermy's unique materiality and revealing its hidden historical, cultural, and theoretical implications, this dissertation argues that taxidermy was resurrected as a popular artistic medium due to its ability to---literally and metaphorically---embody paradox.

ISBN: 9781339600864Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122701
Art history.

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520 $a Embodied Paradox examines the contemporary art world's fascination with taxidermy by investigating the oeuvres of Damien Hirst, Mark Dion, Maurizio Cattelan, and Petah Coyne. These artists gained notoriety in the nineties and their work, which heavily features taxidermy, embraces contradiction. They demonstrate that opposites---such as truth and illusion, nature and culture, and the masculine and the feminine---do not exist in opposition of one another; rather, they coexist.
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