Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy - Hardcover

Milgrom, Melissa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 061840547X ISBN 13: 9780618405473

Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 2010

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Book by Milgrom Melissa

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"An "absorbing blend of bright-eyed reportage and hands-on participation...a genuine appreciation for a true art form, an enthusiasm the author imparts with style in this substantial study." (Publishers Weekly (starred review))"

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Into this subculture of insanely passionate animal lovers ventures journalist Melissa Milgrom, whose journey stretches from the anachronistic family workshop of the last chief taxidermist for the American Museum of Natural History to the studio where an English sculptor, granddaughter of a surrealist artist, preserves the animals for Damien Hirst's most disturbing artworks. She wanders through Mr. Potter's Museum of Curiosities in the final days of its existence to watch dealers vie for preserved Victorian oddities, and visits the Smithsonian's offsite lab, where taxidermists transform zoo skins into vivacious beasts. She tags along with a Canadian bear trapper and former Roy Orbison impersonator - the three-time World Taxidermy Champion - as he resurrects an extinct Irish elk using DNA studies and Paleolithic cave art for reference; she even ultimately picks up a scalpel and stuffs her own squirrel. Transformed from a curious onlooker to an empathetic participant, Milgrom takes us deep into the world of taxidermy and reveals its uncanny appeal.

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• Verlag: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 061840547X
• ISBN 13: 9780618405473
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 304