Exhibiting Animals in Europe and America

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

“This geographically diverse volume makes a ground-breaking contribution to the rise of animal studies in the early modern and modern histories of art and visual culture. Without a doubt, it will also add to a growing body of work enriching histories of visual and material culture within the environmental humanities.”Emily Gephart, School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University and Maura Coughlin, Northeastern University“This innovative and important collection takes a collaborative approach to the study of visual culture and animal life in the Americas and Europe. In a challenge to conventional approaches, the authors place human and other-than-human perspectives and experiences on an equal footing, moving back and forth between uses and depictions of animals on the part of human societies and the lives of the many different creatures they encountered.”Sarah R. Cohen, University at Albany, SUNY