Artists Unsettling Anthropocentrism

Review of Giovanni Aloi, Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene

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  • Stephanie Turner UWEC Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9531

Abstract

Giovanni Aloi, Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 315 pp. $30.

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Author Biography

  • Stephanie Turner, UWEC

    Stephanie S. Turner is Professor of English in the Rhetorics of Science, Technology, and Culture program at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where she teaches courses in visual rhetoric and animals in visual culture. Her forthcoming monograph, Anthropocene Extinction In and Out of View, explores the representational challenges in conservation biology, museum exhibition, and the visual arts presented by the anthropogenic mass extinction of species.

Nandipha Mntambo, Titfunti emkhatsini wetfu (The shadows between us), Cow hide, resin, 2013 © Jean-Baptiste Beranger

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Published

2021-05-26

Issue

Vol. 10 No. 1 (2018): Special Issue: Breed

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Review Articles

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How to Cite

“Artists Unsettling Anthropocentrism: Review of Giovanni Aloi, Speculative Taxidermy: Natural History, Animal Surfaces, and Art in the Anthropocene”. 2021. Humanimalia 10 (1): 222-29. https://doi.org/10.52537/humanimalia.9531.