Exhibiting Animals in Europe and America

This edited volume, written by historians of art and visual culture who are working in the field of animal studies, seeks to understand how our ways of positioning (and ex-positioning) animals have separated us from the other-than-human animals that are an integral part of our interconnected world. Bringing together the visual and material culture of display with recent theoretical study on human-animal relations, the book draws attention to ways in which we might rethink this history and map pathways for the future. Defining the idea of exhibition and display broadly, chapters consider a diverse range of media, including paintings, anatomical sculpture, books, prints, and clothing; exhibition venues that take place in both the public and private realms; and key ideas such as looking at/looking back, seeing/being seen, and interspecies recognition. The authors cover topics that span the sixteenth through the early twentieth centuries and focus geographically on Europe and America, with significant content related to Canada, Indigenous America, and Latin America. The book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, visual studies, museum studies, animal studies, and environmental humanities.

M. Elizabeth Boone is professor in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Alberta. Lianne McTavish is professor in the History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture at the University of Alberta.

Part 1 In Books, Prints, and Photographs 1. Anxious Shores: Early Modern Illustrations of Marine Animals from the Magellan Strait and the Chilean Coast 2. Capturing Animal Life in Brehms Thierleben 3. Turning the World Inside Out: Exhibiting Animals in Nineteenth-Century Spanish Broadsheets 4. Talking Like the Birds: Animal Speech and Embodied Imitation in Early Colonial Mexico 5. Posing Pony: Considering Horses, Children, and Display in Rural Lakota Photographs Part 2 In Palaces, Churches, and Ceremonial Spaces 6. Visceral Castor: Animal Presence in Indigenous Beaver-Pelt Coats and French Tricorn Hats 7. A World Beyond the Mines: Birds in the Flower Paintings of San Martín de Tours in Potosí, Bolivia 8. The War Stories of Sspitaikoan 9. Coexisting Species and Imperial Networks: Displaying African and Asian Animals in the New Kingdom of Granada 10. Winged Beasts for Charles III Part 3 In Studios, Theatres, and Museums 11. The Corpse at the Door: Edwin Landseer and Albert the Lion 12. Bloodhounds, Race, and Spectacle: From Nineteenth-Century Melodrama to Breed Specific Legislation 13. Riding into the Afterlife: A Close Reading of Honoré Fragonard's Écorché of a Horse and his Rider (1766-1771) 14. Fragile Fragments: Reflections on Victorian Beetle Art in a Time of Climate Crisis Part 4 In Parks, Fairs, and Zoos 15. "Predecessors of the living:" Displaying Extinct Animals at the Crystal Palace in Sydenham 16. Twice-Stilled Animals: Control and Vulnerability in Images of Taxidermy in the United States 17. "From ocean's depths and inland streams": Fish on Display at the 1893 Columbian Exposition 18. How a Polar Bear Lived in Canada's First National Park